"Would that I were still young and strong as I was in those days, for then some one of you swineherds would give me a cloak both out of good will and for the respect due to a brave soldier; but now peo…"

"No mortal can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born."

"The gods plant reason in the hearts of men."

"No man who fights with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his knees when he returns from battle."

"The will of Jove is always done."