A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
I didn’t lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!
Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death.
Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.
I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn’t hard when I had a reason to want to know it.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
My name is Nobody.
But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well – for your own son’s death. Never again will you embrace him stiding home. My spirit rebels – I’ve lost the will to live, to take my stand in the world of men –.
All I’ve done is give you a book,” she said. “You have to have the courage to learn what’s inside it.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given...
Cattle and fat sheep can all be had for the raiding, tripods for the trading, and tawny headed stallions. But a mans’s lifebreath cannot come back again- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man’s clenched teeth.
Mistress; please: are you divine, or mortal?
Her gray eyes clear, the goddess Athena answered, “Down from the skies I come to check your rage if only you will yield.
It is unfortunate for us, that, of some of the greatest men, we know least, and talk most.
As I lay dying, the woman with the dog’s eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.
L. 547. The terms made use of in this line, and in 481, may appear somewhat coarse, as addressed by one Goddess to another: but I assure the English reader that in this passage.
If at first you don’t succeed, give up.