Homer

[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool _ it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter never told.

No finer, greater gift in the world than that: When man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. Despair to their enemies, a joy to all their friends. Their own best claim to glory.

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

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.

_There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover__ whisper, irresistible__agic to make the sanest man go mad.

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

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.

__o as the great Achilles rampaged on, his sharp-hoofed stallions trampled shields and corpses, axle under his chariot splashed with blood, blood on the handrails sweeping round the car, sprays of blood shooting up from the stallions' hoofs and churning, whirling rims__nd the son of Peleus charioteering on to seize his glory, bloody filth splattering both strong arms, Achilles' invincible arms_

Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin

I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better.

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

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

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

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