"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…"

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."

"There is no favor in the spear."

"For a man may be a fool and not know it."

"Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issu…"