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„Nelhal jsem! Právě jsem vytvořil fikci ústy!“

„Přesto toužím - celé dny toužím - po cestě domů a po úsvitu svého návratu.“

„Není lepšího daru, než žije-li muž a žena jak jedno tělo a duše v rodinném kruhu.“

„Na světě neexistuje nic slabšího, než je muž.“

„Na světě není nic slabšího než muž.“

„Nic není sladší než vlast a rodič na světě širém, i když máš v cizině statky a palác! Nejsi doma!“

„Nic není na světě slabšího než muž.“

„Hodně mluvit a hodně říkat není totéž.“

„Všeho se nasytí člověk, i samého spánku a lásky.“

„V mládí a kráse je zřídka moudrost.“

„Člověk se nasytí všeho, i lásky.“

„Čti správně přítomnost a kráčej s budoucností.“

„Je krásné a slušné zemřít pro svou vlast.“
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

„Nejsi jen tak někdo a hlavu nemáš jen tak…nezdá se, že jsi zlý neb nemoudrý člověk.“

„Žena chce vždycky obohatit toho, s kým právě žije.“

„Muž se má vyznati ve hrách. Pravý muž nezná přec větší slávy než z vítězství vlastních paží a nohou.“

„Přestaň již s nářkem. Slzami nespravíš nic.“

„Co hoře naplodil žaludek lidstvu! Pro lidský žaludek vyplouvají i válečná loďstva na rozbouřené moře a nesou lidstvu zkázu a zmar.“

„Zbytečná skromnost chudému škodí.“

„A prázdná slova jsou zlo.“

„Věděl, jak říct mnoho falešných věcí, které zněly jako pravdivé výroky.“

„Hřích je vymýšlet záhubu druhým.“

„V bídě se rychleji stárne.“

„Pokud budete sloužit příliš mnoha pánům, brzy budete trpět.“

„Chraň se i ty být v ženině područí a nesvěřuj se jí ve slabé chvilce s tajemstvími - řekni jen něco a zbytek zataj!“

„Život je do značné míry otázkou očekávání.“

“The day will come when sacred Troy must die,
Priam must die and all his people with him,
Priam who hurls the strong ash spear!”

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

“But one can't go without his sleep forever.
The immortals give each thing its proper place
in our mortal lives throughout the good green earth.”

“Let us put our griefs to rest in our own hearts…
What good's to be won from tears that chill the spirit?
So the immortals spun our lives that we, we wretched men
live on to bear such torments—the gods live free of sorrows.”

“As when in harp and song adept, a bard
Unlab'ring strains the chord to a new lyre.”

“Prayers are Jove's daughters, of celestial race,
Lame are their feet, and wrinkled is their face;
With humble mien, and with dejected eyes,
Constant they follow where Injustice flies.”

“Oh but if Zeus's lightning blinded us those days,
it's Zeus who drives us, hurls us on today!”

“Bear up, old heart! You've borne worse, far worse…”

“They remembered bed and took the gift of sleep.”

“A physician is worth more than several other men put together, for he can cut out arrows and spread healing herbs.”

“If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.”

“Ashamed to decline the challenge, yet fearing to accept it.”

“Let them be friends,
devoted as in the old days. Let peace and wealth
come cresting through the land.”

“There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.”

“Shaker of the earth, you would have me be as one without prudence
if I am to fight even you for the sake of insignificant
mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm
with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again
fade away and are dead.”

“As stars in the night sky glittering
round the moon's brilliance blaze in all their glory
when the air falls to a sudden, windless calm…
all the lookout peaks stand out and the jutting cliffs
and the steep ravines and down from the high heavens bursts
the boundless, bright air and all the stars shine clear
and the shepherd's heart exults.”

“Locking spear by spear, shield against shield at the base, so buckler
leaned on buckler, helmet on helmet, man against man.”

“And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once.”

“But a man's life breath cannot come back again—
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.”

“Behold on wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong!
Dwells there a god on all the Olympian brow
More swift than Mars, and more than Vulcan slow?
Yet Vulcan conquers, and the god of arms
Must pay the penalty for lawless charms.”

“Well then, what shall I go through first,
what shall I save for last?”

“Both gods knotted the rope of strife and leveling war,
strangling both sides at once by stretching the mighty cable,
never broken, never slipped, that snapped the knees of thousands.”

“Nothing more shameless is than Appetite,
Who still, whatever anguish load our breast,
Makes us remember in our own despite
Both food and drink.”

“For a guest remembers all his days the hospitable man who showed him kindness.”

“No man who fights with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his knees when he returns from battle.”

“Along the shore of the loud-roaring sea.”

“Then give him into the charge of swift messengers to carry him,
of Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers, and these two shall lay him
down presently within the rich countryside of broad Lykia.”

“No more entreating of me, you dog, by knees or parents.”

“Not iron, trust me,
the heart within my breast. I am all compassion.”