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„Človek, ktorý prešiel trpkými skúsenosťami a precestoval veľké vzdialenosti, si po čase užíva aj svoje utrpenie.“

„Napriek tomu túžim - celé dni túžim - cestovať domov a vidieť úsvit môjho návratu.“

„Nieje lepšieho daru, keď žije muž a žena ako jedno telo a duša v rodinnom kruhu.“

„Každý, kto má dobré srdce v tele, ctí si svoju ženu a nežne ju chráni.“

„Šťastie je to jediné, čo môžeme dávať bez toho, aby sme ho mali.“

„Veľa hovoriť a veľa povedať nie je to isté.“

„Hlas ľudu – hlas Boží.“

„Muž sa má vyznať v hrách. Pravý muž nepozná predsa väčšej slávy než z víťazstva vlastných rúk a nôh.“

„Keď sa to už stalo, i blázon zmúdrie.“

„Sebadôvera je základom sebaúcty.“

„Základom charakteru je sila vôle.“

„Ak sa zahľadíš do vlniacich sa vôd mora jasným, neskaleným zrakom, tak uzrieš v každej vlne odraz najvyššej pravdy a krásy.“

„Bohatstvo sa nedostáva vždy k najlepším.“

„Kto sa odváži myslieť si jednu vec a povedať inú,
Moje srdce ho znenávidí ako brány do pekla.“

„Priateľ s chápavým srdcom nie je o nič menejcenný ako brat.“

„Nie je na svete nič slabšieho než muž.“

„Múdro sa rozhodnúť, trpezlivo vykonávať.“

„Nie je nič vzešenejsšie a nádhernejšie, ako dvaja manželia, ktorí sú vnútorne jednotní.“

„Smelému šťastie praje.“

„Videl mestá, mnohých ľudí a poznal ich mravy.“

„Všetkého sa človek nasýti, aj samého spánku a lásky.“

„Žena chce vždy obohatiť toho, s kým práve žije.“

„Čítaj správne prítomnosť a kráčaj s budúcnosťou.“

„Človek sa nasýti všetkého, i lásky.“

„Kde je viac ľudí, tam je úspech.“

„Nešťastím predčasne vädnú smrteľníci.“

„Niet väčšej slávy pre človeka, než skrze cvičené ruky a nohy.“

“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.”