Homer

Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power.

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

I will stay with it and endure through suffering hardship and once the heaving sea has shaken my raft to pieces, then I will swim.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

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.

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...

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.

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

Have patience, heart.

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.

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

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

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

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

A small rock holds back a great wave.

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

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

Too many kings can ruin an army.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.

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

Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.

The journey is the thing.

I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.