Homer — "The young men were eager for battle, but the old men were wise."

"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…"

"The gods have woven misery into mortal lives, that there might be songs for men to come."

"The gods, too, are fond of a joke."

"No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus! By god, I'd rather slave on earth for another man-- Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breath…"

"Beauty, terrible beauty! A deathless goddess — so she strikes our eyes!"