"There is nothing more dreadful than the sea."

"The best of life is but a dream."

"And it is not a good thing to be a guest in a strange land, for a man may be a burden to his host."

"Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him su…"

"And bid your handmaids to do their work. But stories concern men, all men, but especially me, for mine is the power in the house."