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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.”

“I'll fling a spear myself and leave the rest to Zeus.”

“See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.”

“Who, on his own,
has ever really known who gave him life?”

“He in the turning dust lay
mightily in his might, his horsemanship all forgotten.”

“He will tell you no lies, for he is an excellent person.”

“The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate.”

“The fleeting shadows of the dead.”

“The gods don't hand out all their gifts at once,
not build and brains and flowing speech to all.”

“He kissed his son, and a tear fell from his cheek on to the ground, for he had restrained all tears till now.”

“I far excel every one else in the whole world,
of those who still eat bread upon the face of the earth.”

“Sleep, universal king of gods and men.”

“Such desire is in him
merely to see the hearthsmoke leaping upward
from his own island, that he longs to die.”

“If indeed there be a god in heaven.”

“Bird-signs!
Fight for your country—that is the best, the only omen!”

“Man, supposing you and I, escaping this battle,
would be able to live on forever, ageless, immortal,
so neither would I myself go on fighting in the foremost,
nor would I urge you into the fighting where men win glory.
But now, seeing that the spirits of death stand close about us
in their thousands, no man can turn aside or escape them,
let us go on and win glory for ourselves, or yield it to others.”

“Hardship can age a person overnight.”

“It's light work for the gods who rule the skies
to exalt a mortal man or bring him low.”

“There she encountered Sleep, the brother of Death.”

“And may the gods accomplish your desire:
a home, a husband, and harmonious
converse with him – the best thing in the world
being a strong house held in serenity
where man and wife agree. Woe to their enemies,
joy to their friends! But all this they know best.”

“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy.
Many cities of men he saw and learned their minds,
many pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea,
fighting to save his life and bring his comrades home.”

“But if you're a man who eats the crops of the earth,
a mortal born for death—here, come closer,
the sooner you will meet your day to die!”

“Two gates there are for our evanescent dreams,
one is made of ivory, the other made of horn.
Those that pass through the ivory cleanly carved
are will-o'-the-wisps, their message bears no fruit.
The dreams that pass through the gates of polished horn
are fraught with truth, for the dreamer who can see them.”

“The blessed gods have no love for crime.
They honor justice, honor the decent acts of men.”

“An irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest,
soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself…”

“The recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all.”

“A deep sleep took hold upon him and eased the burden of his sorrows.”

“When a Man's exhausted, wine will build his strength.”

“Friends, we're hardly strangers at meeting danger.”

“The will of Zeus was accomplished.”