Mary Renault

As the proverb tells us, war is sweet to the untried.

"Today has not run away from us, like days that are filled with nothing. They are wrong who say that only misery lengthens time."—"Yes," he said. "Yet the day is ending, and still too soon."

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

but let them beware of the lie in the soul. Men worship such words; and then, feeling themselves a part of what can do no wrong, swell up in hubris, thinking only how much higher they are than another set of men, not how much lower than the gods.