"Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide"

"Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."

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

"By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember"

"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""

"Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?"

"The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others."

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

"Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be more lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."

"It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be."

"A small rock holds back a great wave."

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

"Have patience, heart."

"I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another"

"Say not a word in death's favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead." -Achilles"

"Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw"

"I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future."

"Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero."

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

"But sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away"

"A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly."

"I say no wealth is worth my life."

"My every impulse bends to what is right"

"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair."

"Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade."

"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."

"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."

"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"

"...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep."

"But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me."

"My life is "more "to me than all the wealth of Ilius"

"There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands."

"Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races."

"Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after."

"...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise."

"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."

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

"All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life."

"And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you— it’s born with us the day that we are born."

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

"Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable"

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

"One omen is best; Defending the fatherland"

"Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions..."

"Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power"

"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!"

"It is unfortunate for us, that, of some of the greatest men, we know least, and talk most."

"And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared."

"Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices"