"Some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind"

"Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share."

"Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans."

"We men are wretched things."

"I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!"

"Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death"

"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."

"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for."

"Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this."

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

"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."

"A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time"

"For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother"

"Even a fool learns something once it hits him."

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

"…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad."

"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."

"Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought"

"And oft the blessed time foretells When all men shall be free; And musical, as silver bells, Their falling chains shall be."

"Every arrow that flies feels the pull of the earth."

" Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey; Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended."

"Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts."

"Art is the child of Nature."