"Such was the burial they gave to Hector, tamer of horses."

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him."

"Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish."

"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."

"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war."

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes."

"Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!"

"The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster."

"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."

"Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there."