| Quotes |
Topic |
| Conversation | Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. |
| Courage | O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes; For more of those who shrink from shame are safe Than fall in battle, while with those who flee Is neither glory nor reprieve from death. |
| Deceit | Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. |
| Destiny | No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. |
| Destiny | All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread. |
| Dreams | Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky. |
| Eating | Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl. |
| End | Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip. |
| Example | Content to follow when we lead the way. |
| Faith | Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd! |
| Folly | He is a fool Who only sees the mischiefs that are past. |
| Future | And better skilled in dark events to come. |
| Gifts | Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails! |
| Glory | The first in glory, as the first in place. |
| Gods | Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear. |
| Gods | The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled. |
| Gods | Shakes his ambroisal curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god. |
| Gods | The ox-eyes awful Juno. |
| Gods | Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods. |
| Greatness | Ajax the great . . . Himself a host. |
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