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„(…) wolooka (czcigodna) Hera (…).”

„Kto czyni cnotliwie i przed złem się wzdraga, tego sławę po świecie roznoszą pochodnie.”

„Na ziemi nie ma słabszego stworzenia niż człowiek.”

„Nawet statecznych ludzi poglądy mogą się zmienić.”

„Taki już los ludzkich rodów, jak losy nietrwałych liści, Jedne na ziemię wiatr zrzuca liście, a inne wydaje Rozkwitający las, kiedy zbliża się pora wiosenna.”

„Gdzie wiele rąk, tam łatwa praca.”

„Miłość posiada skrzydła, ale też może ich i udzielić.”

„Spośród tych, co oddychają i chodzą po ziemi, nie ma nikogo bardziej godnego pożałowania niż człowiek.”

„To okropne rzucać słowa na wiatr.”

„Muzo! męża wyśpiewaj, co święty gród Troi
Zburzywszy, długo błądził.”

„Los dał ludziom odwagę znoszenia cierpień.”

„Rzeczą człowieka jest walczyć, a rzeczą nieba – dać zwycięstwo.”

„Jeśli kto kocha wojnę domową, jest pozbawiony więzów rodzinnych, prawa i własnego miejsca.”

„W miłości to jest nieszczęściem: raz wojna, raz pokój.”

„Najnowszą pieśń najwięcej ludzie sławią.”

„Jakie słowo wypowiesz, takie usłyszysz.”

„Morze, ten rybi gościniec.”

„Mowa słodsza niż miód.”

„Być zawsze pierwszym i innych przewyższać.”

„Podróżowanie to najwspanialsza rzecz na świecie.”

„Jak los liści na drzewach, taki też los rodu ludzkiego.”

“… like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.”

“No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”

“Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.”

“His descent was like nightfall.”

“Why cover the same ground again?… It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.”

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

“out of sight, out of mind”

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

“Immortals are never alien to one another.”

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

“Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile”

“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”

“Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.”

“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.”

“The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.”

“Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.”

“Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.”

“…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.”

“Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.”

“Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.”

“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.”

“down from his brow
she ran his curls
like thick hyacinth clusters
full of blooms”

“As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.”

“A small rock holds back a great wave.”

“I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men”

“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end”

“You wine sack, with a dog's eyes, with a deer's heart.”

“May you be turned every man of you into earth and water as you sit spiritless and inglorious in your places.”

“He lacks the sense to see a day behind, a day ahead.”