Homer — "Men hold me formidable for guile in peace and war."

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

"Very like leaves upon this earth are the generations of men -- old leaves, cast on the ground by wind, young leaves the greening forest bears when spring comes in. So mortals pass; one generation flow…"

"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…"

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

"The best of seers is he who guesses well."