"But sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away."

"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 house of somebody else with my lamentation and wailing. It is not good to go on mourning forever."

"But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from father or mother, he does not care about it."

"Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,even so I will endure For already have I suffered full much,and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.Let this be added to the tale of those."

"It is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool " it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter never told."

"And they limp and halt, they're all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can't look you in the eyes, and always bent on duty, trudging after Ruin, maddening, blinding Ruin. But Ruin is strong and swift-She outstrips them all by far, stealing a march, leaping over the whole wide earth to bring mankind to grief."

"And what so tedious as a twice-told tale."

"Man is the vainest of allcreatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heavenvouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come tono harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods bring sorrow uponhim, he bears it as he needs must, and makes the best of it; forGod Almighty gives men their daily minds day by day. I know allabout it, for I was a rich man once, and did much wrong in thestubbornness of my pride, and in the confidence that my father andmy brothers would support me; therefore let a man fear God in allthings always, and take the good that heaven may see fit to sendhim without vainglory."

"But there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives."

"Two friends-two bodies with one soul inspired."

"And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared."

"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!"

"It is a wise child that knows his own father."

"But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions."

"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another."

"Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend."

"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."

"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."

"Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born."

"The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others."

"Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both."

"It is not right to exult over slain men."

"He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings."

"And empty words are evil."

"There is satiety in all things in sleep and love-making in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance."

"Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one-so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim-the greater man."

"What I say will be a bit of boasting. The mad wine tells me to do it. Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken."

"For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts."

"Like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance."

"Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war."

"For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother."

"It is not good to have a rule of many."

"Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things."

"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."

"Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them."

"I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better."

"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."

"The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain."

"Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods."

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war."

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

"The business of wretches is wretched even in guarantee giving."

"What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own wickedness that brings them sufferings worse than any which destiny allots them."

"For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can have no objection to tears for any mortal who dies and goes to his destiny. And this is the only consolation we wretched mortals can give, to cut our hair and let the tears roll down our faces."

"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."

"You, you insolent brazen bitch-you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father's face?"

"Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other."

"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe."

"He held his seat a friend to human race."