Homer Quotes

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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

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O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

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One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.

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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

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For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

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Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

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Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

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Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.

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Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.

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In silence trailing away
by the shore of the tumbling clamorous whispering sea.

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Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

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Their ships are swift as a bird or a thought.

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It is no cause for anger that the Trojans and the well-greaved Achaeans have suffered for so long over such a woman: she is wondrously like the immortal goddesses to look upon.
Of Helen

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The rule
Of the many is not well. One must be chief
In war and one the king.

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It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.

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Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

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Surely there is nothing more wretched than a man, of all the things which breathe and move upon the earth.

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And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.

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But night is already at hand; it is well to yield to the night.

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There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.

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There is nothing more shameless than the accursed belly; it thrusts itself upon a man's mind in spite of his afflictions.

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I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

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I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, you too shall live but for a little season; death and the day of your doom are close upon you, and they will lay you low by the hand of Achilles son of Aiakos.

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