“For Ares, lord of strife, Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold, Wars money-changer, giving dust for gold, Sends back, to hearts that held them dear, Scant ash of warriors, wept with many a ...”

“And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.”

“Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods.”

“In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain”

“Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.”

“There is no avoidance in delay.”

“Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?”

“The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.”

“For the natural polytheist, whose gods arise in and from the natural material world ... Our gods not only have transcendent eyes and metaphysical hands. They have antlers and feathers, hooves and s...”

“I sing to you of many more gods, gods of wind and water, gods of each mineral and the events that created them. I sing to you of the gods of protons, of quarks, of atomic forces binding and holding...”

“Icarus should have waited for nightfall,the moon would have never let him go.”

“You're not crazy." She was serious, no hint of a smile.He cocked a brow. "And how do you know that?""I cut hair for a living." Her dark eyes glinted with playfulness, easing some of his jacked-up n...”

“You should know by now that love is never a weakness, Ares. Love is the mortal worlds greatest strength.”