Men hold me formidable for guile in peace and war.
Iliad and Odyssey
Odysseus's self-description in The Odyssey, highlighting his reliance on cunning and deceit rather than brute force.
c. 8th century BCE
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"Hera, do not hope to know all my thoughts; they will be hard for you, although you are my wife."
Humorous"Sleep, that sweet state in which no man is wise."
Humorous"Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one."
Strange & Unusual"For young men's spirits are too quickly stirr'd."
Strange & Unusual"Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth."
Strange & Unusual