Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the grie… - Homer

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat — coward!

Ἄσβεστος δ' ἄρ' ἐνῶρτο γέλως μακάρεσσι θεοῖσιν
ὡς ἴδον Ἥφαιστον διὰ δώματα ποιπνύοντα.

She who is only a little thing at the first, but thereafter
grows until she strides on the earth with her head striking heaven.