❝ “Of all the creatures that breathe and move across the earth, there is nothing feebler than man.” Homer
❝ “I should rather labor as another’s serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.” Homer
❝ “Among all men on Earth, bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the Muse has taught them songs, and loves the race of bards.” Homer
❝ “And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-it’s born with us the day that we are born.” Homer
❝ “The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.” Homer
❝ “Tell me, muse, of the man of many resources who wandered far and wide after he sacked the holy citadel of Troy and he saw the cities and learned the thoughts of many men, and on the sea he suffered in his heart many woes.” Homer