"The gods do not take all men's wits away."

"Even for the gods, it is not easy to know the minds of men."

"Very like leaves upon this earth are the generations of men -- old leaves, cast on the ground by wind, young leaves the greening forest bears when spring comes in. So mortals pass; one generation flow…"

"Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans."

"I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and b…"