For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.
Too many kings can ruin an army
And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart it's burden of sorrow as I think back; I am very full of grief, and I should not sit in the hous...
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
Achilles absent was Achilles still.
…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
When two men are together, one of them may see some opportunity which the other has not caught sight of; if a man is alone he is less full of resource, and his wit is weaker.
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways,who was driven far journeys
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
Labor conquers all things.
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.