"Nam veluti pueri trepidant atque omnia caecis in tenebris metuunt, sic nos in luce timemus interdum, nilo quae sunt metuenda magis quam quae pueri in tenebris pavitant finguntque futura. hunc igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necessest non radii solis neque lucida tela diei discutiant sed naturae species ratioque."

"Cedit item retro, de terra quod fuit ante, in terras."

"Vitaque mancipio, nulli datur, omnibus usu."

"Sic rerum summa novatur semper, et inter se mortales mutua vivunt. augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur, inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum et quasi cursores vitae lampada tradunt."

"O miseras hominum mentes, o pectora caeca! qualibus in tenebris vitae quantisque periclis degitur hoc aevi quod cumquest! nonne videre nihil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi ut qui corpore seiunctus dolor absit, mente fruatur iucundo sensu cura semota metuque?"

"Omnis cum in tenebris praesertim vita laboret."

"Nam petere imperium quod inanest nec datur umquam, atque in eo semper durum sufferre laborem, hoc est adverso nixantem trudere monte saxa quod tamen e summo iam vertice rursum volvitur et plani raptim petit aequora campi."

"Sed nihil dulcius est, bene quam munita tenere edita doctrina sapientum templa serena, despicere unde queas alios passimque videre errare atque viam palantis quaerere vitae, certare ingenio, contendere nobilitate, noctes atque dies niti praestante labore ad summas emergere opes rerumque potiri."

"Nequeunt oculis rerum primordia cerni."

"Stilicidi casus lapidem cavat."

"Etsi difficiile esse videtur credere quicquam in rebus solido reperiri corpore posse. transit enim fulmen caeli per saepta domorum, clamor ut ad voces; flamen candescit in igni dissiliuntque ferre ferventi saxa vapore. tum labefactatus rigor auri solvitur aestu; tum glacies aeris flamma devicta liquescit; permanat calor argentum penetraleque frigus quando utrumque manu retinentes pocula rite sensimus infuso lympharum rore superne."

"Haud igitur redit ad nihilum res ulla."

"Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum."

"Nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam."

"Ita res accendent lumina rebus."

"Nil posse creari de nihilo."

"Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit et extra processit longe flammantia moenia mundi atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque."

"Quare religio pedibus subiecta vicissim opteritur, nos exaequat victoria caelo."

"Suave mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem; non quia vexari quemquamst jucunda voluptas, sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est."

"Saepius illa religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta."

"Álomban és szerelemben nincs lehetetlenség."

"The Odyssey of Homer, trans. Alexander Pope (1725)"

"The Odyssey of Homer, trans. William Cowper (1791)"

"The Odyssey, trans. Robert Fitzgerald (Doubleday, 1961)"

"The Odyssey, trans. E. V. Rieu (Penguin Books, 1946)"

"The Odyssey, trans. Samuel Butler (1898)"

"The Odyssey, trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin, 1997),"

"The Iliad of Homer, trans. Edward, Earl of Derby (1864)"

"The Iliad of Homer, trans. Alexander Pope (1720)"

"The Odyssey, trans. George Herbert Palmer (1884)"

"The Odyssey, trans. Emily Wilson (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017),"

"The Iliad, trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin, 1991),"

"The Iliad of Homer, trans. Richmond Lattimore (University of Chicago Press, 1951)"

"The Iliad of Homer, trans. Samuel Butler (1898)"

"It was Homer who gave laws to the artist; it was Homer who inspired the poet."

"Notwithstanding the veneration due and paid to Homer, it is very strange, yet true, that among the most learned, and the greatest admirers of antiquity, there is scarce one to be found who ever read the Iliad with that eagerness and rapture which a woman feels when she reads the Novel of Zaïda... The common part of mankind is awed with the fame of Homer, rather than struck with his beauties."

"The Iliad of Homer, trans. Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers (1883)"

"His gods are perhaps at once absurd and entertaining."

"The Odyssey of Homer, trans. Samuel Butcher and Andrew Lang (1879)"

"But how did you come to have this skill about Homer only, and not about Hesiod or the other poets? Does not Homer speak of the same themes which all other poets handle? Is not war his great argument? and does he not speak of human society and of intercourse of men, good and bad, skilled and unskilled, and of the gods conversing with one another and with mankind, and about what happens in heaven and in the world below, and the generations of gods and heroes? Are not these the themes of which Homer sings?"

"As learned commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew."

"Are vitality and creativity somehow connected with bellicosity? Could there have been Greek civilisation without this restless obsession with fighting? The place of Homer, especially the Iliad, in Greek culture accentuates these disturbing questions. While the cliché that Homer was "the Bible of the Greeks" is misleading – his was in no way a sacred or unquestionable text – he was central to their basic education, and at least as familiar as Shakespeare is to us, if not more so."

"The first of the tragedians."

"Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all things else will seem so dull and poor, You'l wish 't unread; but oft upon him look, And you will hardly need another book."

"Greek tragedy could never have flowered without Homer as its pioneer."

"The poems of Homer and his contemporaries were the delight of infant Greece; they were the elements of that social system which is the column upon which all succeeding civilization has reposed. Homer embodied the ideal perfection of his age in human character; nor can we doubt that those who read his verses were awakened to an ambition of becoming like to Achilles, Hector, and Ulysses: the truth and beauty of friendship, patriotism, and persevering devotion to an object, were unveiled to the depths in these immortal creations."

"The Odyssey of Homer, trans. Philip Stanhope Worsley and John Conington (1865)"

"Facilius esse Herculi clavam quam Homero versum subripere."

"Μή με κύον γούνων γουνάζεο μὴ δὲ τοκήων."