Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HomerStichwörter: inspirational
I say no wealth is worth my life.
HomerStichwörter: life wealth value
Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.
HomerLet me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
HomerDreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
HomerStichwörter: dreams
Her gray eyes clear, the goddess Athena answered, "Down from the skies I come to check your rage if only you will yield
HomerThe day that robs a child of his parents severs him from his own kind; his head is bowed, his cheeks are wet with tears, and he will go about destitute among the friends of his father, plucking one by the cloak and another by the shirt. Some one or other of these may so far pity him as to hold the cup for a moment towards him and let him moisten his lips, but he must not drink enough to wet the roof of his mouth; then one whose parents are alive will drive him from the table with blows and angry words.
HomerI wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.
HomerWhy, pray, must the Argives needs fight the Trojans? What made the son of Atreus gather the host and bring them? Was it not for the sake of Helen? Are the sons of Atreus the only men in the world who love their wives? Any man of common right feeling will love and cherish her who is his own, as I this woman, with my whole heart
HomerFear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable
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