"And bid your handmaids to do their work. But stories concern men, all men, but especially me, for mine is the power in the house."

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

"After the event, even a fool is wise."

"Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one."

"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."