Status Updates From The Odessy of Homer

“wickedness… has made an end of them; for they respected no man in the whole world, neither rich nor poor, who came near them, and they have come to a bad end in consequence of their iniquity”

“So let me have no more unseemly behaviour from any of you, for I am grown up now to the knowledge of good and evil and understand what is going on, instead of being the child that I have been heretofore.”

“Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heaven vouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come to no harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods bring sorrow upon him, …I know all about it, for I was a rich man once, and did much wrong in the stubbornness of my pride, and in the confidence that my father and my brothers would support me…”

“for the sight [availability] of arms sometimes tempts people to use them”

“If you go near the suitors you will be undone to a certainty, for their pride and insolence reach the very heavens.”

”Circe, no man with any sense of what is right can think of either eating or drinking in your house until you have set his friends free and let him see them. If you want me to eat and drink, you must free my men and bring them to me that I may see them with my own eyes.'”

“They have no laws nor assemblies of the people, but live in caves on the tops of high mountains; each is lord and master in his family, and they take no account of their neighbours.”

“May heaven grant you in all things your heart's desire–husband, house, and a happy, peaceful home; for there is nothing better in this world than that man and wife should be of one mind in a house.”