Quotes from Homer, The Odyssey

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

And empty words are evil.

but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away

The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age.

Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

Of all things that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. Taken from the Odyssey.