Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.
All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.
Without TV, it's hard to know when one day ends and another begins.