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.

— Homer

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 bought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

— Homer

Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear

— Homer

Far from gay cities and the way of men.

— Homer

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother

— Homer

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.

— Homer

For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can have no objection to tears for any mortal who dies and goes to his destiny. And this is the only consolation we wretched mortals can give, to cut our hair and let the tears roll down our faces.

— Homer

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.

— Homer

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell Is he who hiding one thing in his heart Utters another.

— Homer

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

— Homer