Homer — "Even a stranger, if he be in distress, deserves our help."

"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."

"Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him su…"

"Would that I were still young and strong as I was in those days, for then some one of you swineherds would give me a cloak both out of good will and for the respect due to a brave soldier; but now peo…"

"There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life."

"There is no favor in the spear."