"The gods are always with us."

"There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life."

"The gods have woven misery into mortal lives, that there might be songs for men to come."

"Odysseus grabbed her throat with his right hand and told her he 'will not spare [her] when [he] kill[s] the rest, / the other slave women, although [she was] / [his] nurse'."

"Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issu…"