"No finer, greater gift in the world than that: When man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. Despair to their enemies, a joy to all their friends. Their own best claim to glory."

"The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things."

"An irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself."

"It is the bold man who every time does best at home or abroad."

"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."

"Hunger is insolent, and will be fed."

"True friends appear less moved than counterfeit."

"Far from gay cities and the way of men."

"Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause."

"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

"Too many kings can ruin an army."

"Achilles absent was Achilles still."

"Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off-all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms That's how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears."

"His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey."

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

"Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!"

"Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid."

"Light is the task where many share the toil."

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

"Tis man's to fight but Heaven's to give success."

"The hearts of great men can be changed."

"Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame."

"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."

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

"Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on."

"Wise to resolve, and patient to perform."

"All strangers and beggars are from Zeus and a gift though small is precious."

"To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."

"You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you'd run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat-coward!"

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

"Many are the birds who under the sun's rays wander the sky, not all of them mean anything."

"Reproach is infinite, and knows no endSo voluble a weapon is the tongue;Wounded, we wound; and neither side can failFor every man has equal strength to rail."

"Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin."

"A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted and who has many responsibilities."

"Labor conquers all things."

"The tongue of man is a twisty thing."

"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."

"And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!"

"How vain, without the merit, is the name."

"Who dares think one thing and another tell My heart detests him as the gates of hell."

"Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this."

"Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear."

"But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well-for your own son's death. Never again will you embrace him stiding home. My spirit rebels-I've lost the will to live, to take my stand in the world of men."

"The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age."

"A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much."

"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."

"Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing."