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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.”

“The day will come when sacred Troy must die,
Priam must die and all his people with him,
Priam who hurls the strong ash spear!”

“Think not to match yourself against gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.”

“But one can't go without his sleep forever.
The immortals give each thing its proper place
in our mortal lives throughout the good green earth.”

“Let us put our griefs to rest in our own hearts…
What good's to be won from tears that chill the spirit?
So the immortals spun our lives that we, we wretched men
live on to bear such torments—the gods live free of sorrows.”

“As when in harp and song adept, a bard
Unlab'ring strains the chord to a new lyre.”

“Prayers are Jove's daughters, of celestial race,
Lame are their feet, and wrinkled is their face;
With humble mien, and with dejected eyes,
Constant they follow where Injustice flies.”

“Oh but if Zeus's lightning blinded us those days,
it's Zeus who drives us, hurls us on today!”

“Bear up, old heart! You've borne worse, far worse…”

“They remembered bed and took the gift of sleep.”

“A physician is worth more than several other men put together, for he can cut out arrows and spread healing herbs.”

“If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.”

“Ashamed to decline the challenge, yet fearing to accept it.”

“Let them be friends,
devoted as in the old days. Let peace and wealth
come cresting through the land.”

“There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.”

“Shaker of the earth, you would have me be as one without prudence
if I am to fight even you for the sake of insignificant
mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm
with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again
fade away and are dead.”

“As stars in the night sky glittering
round the moon's brilliance blaze in all their glory
when the air falls to a sudden, windless calm…
all the lookout peaks stand out and the jutting cliffs
and the steep ravines and down from the high heavens bursts
the boundless, bright air and all the stars shine clear
and the shepherd's heart exults.”

“Locking spear by spear, shield against shield at the base, so buckler
leaned on buckler, helmet on helmet, man against man.”

“And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once.”

“But a man's life breath cannot come back again—
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.”

“Behold on wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong!
Dwells there a god on all the Olympian brow
More swift than Mars, and more than Vulcan slow?
Yet Vulcan conquers, and the god of arms
Must pay the penalty for lawless charms.”

“Well then, what shall I go through first,
what shall I save for last?”

“Both gods knotted the rope of strife and leveling war,
strangling both sides at once by stretching the mighty cable,
never broken, never slipped, that snapped the knees of thousands.”

“Nothing more shameless is than Appetite,
Who still, whatever anguish load our breast,
Makes us remember in our own despite
Both food and drink.”

“For a guest remembers all his days the hospitable man who showed him kindness.”

“No man who fights with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his knees when he returns from battle.”

“Along the shore of the loud-roaring sea.”

“Then give him into the charge of swift messengers to carry him,
of Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers, and these two shall lay him
down presently within the rich countryside of broad Lykia.”

“No more entreating of me, you dog, by knees or parents.”

“Not iron, trust me,
the heart within my breast. I am all compassion.”