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.
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.
If God didn’t want us to eat cows, why are they made out of meat?
Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.
It’s disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you’d step over your own mother just to get one!
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
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 griefs that fate assigns.
I’ll teach you to laugh at something that’s funny!
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
There will be killing till the score is paid.