Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

Kids are great. You can teach them to hate what you hate and, with the Internet and all, they practically raise themselves.

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them.