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When the defiant boy, whose heart had never trembled,
saw this girl at the head of her troop of companions
he stiffened, and every bone in his body
absorbed liquid fire.

Statius: Achilleid (2015)

Don't try to cut any deals with me, Hector.
Do lions make peace treaties with men?
Do wolves and lambs agree to get along?

Iliad (1997)

The person who casts off desires,
who acts free from craving and lust,
indifferent to "I, my, me,"
that person will arrive at peace.

Bhagavad Gita (2019)

There's no way to get around the mind of Zeus.

Works and Days and Theogony (1993)

I have borne what no man
Who has walked this earth has ever yet borne.
I have kissed the hand of the man who killed my son.

Iliad (1997)

Your mission, Roman, is to rule the world.
These will be your arts: to establish peace,
To spare the humbled, and to conquer the proud.

Aeneid (2005)

It was glorious to see—if your heart were iron,
And you could keep from grieving at all the pain.

Iliad (1997)

Whoever escapes marriage
And women's harm, comes to deadly old age
Without any son to support him.

Works and Days and Theogony (1993)

We know how to tell many believable lies,
But also, when we want to, how to speak the plain truth.

Works and Days and Theogony (1993)

Shimmering,
iridescent,
deathless Aphrodite.

Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)

Human generations are like leaves in their seasons.
The wind blows them to the ground, but the tree
Sprouts new ones when spring comes again.
Men too. Their generations come and go.

Iliad (1997)

Through me is the way to the city of woe.
Through me is the way to sorrow eternal.
Through me is the way to the lost below.

Inferno (2008)

The moon has set,
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.

Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)

Don't try to sell me on death, Odysseus.
I'd rather be a hired hand back up on earth,
Slaving away for some poor dirt farmer,
Than lord it over all these withered dead.

Odyssey (2000)

Some say an army on horseback,
some say on foot, and some say ships
are the most beautiful things
on this black earth,
but I say
it is whatever you love.

Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)

Achilles—bring back the story, Goddess,
of the formidable hero descended through Aeacus
from thundering Jupiter, but denied His heaven,
his deeds indeed famous through Homeric song,
but with much more to celebrate.

Statius: Achilleid (2015)

And for yourself, may the gods grant you
Your heart's desire, a husband and a home,
And the blessing of a harmonious life.
For nothing is greater or finer than this,
When a man and woman live together
With one heart and mind, bringing joy
To their friends and grief to their foes.

Odyssey (2000)

Rage:
Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain.

Iliad (1997)

The Way is calm and wide,
Not easy, not difficult.
But small minds get lost.
Hurrying, they fall behind. Clinging, they go too far,
Sure to take a wrong turn.
Just let it be! In the end,
Nothing goes, nothing stays.

Trust in Mind (2008)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stanley Lombardo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.