Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.

The hearts of the great can be changed.

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.