Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
HomerWhich would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?
HomerThink not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
HomerFriend, 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.
Homer