Homer

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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; for God 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."

"The tongue of man is a twisty thing."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"Too many kings can ruin an army"

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