"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."

"Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus, that ruinous wrath which brought the Achaeans countless woes, and hurled down into Hades many strong souls of heroes, and gave their bodies to be a…"

"It is not seemly for a man who is a guest to ask too many questions."

"Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done m…"

"Sleep, that sweet state in which no man is wise."