Homer Quotes

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For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

Homer
Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

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I could not tell nor name the multitude, not even if I had ten tongues, ten mouths, not if I had a voice unwearying and a heart of bronze were in me.

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Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!

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Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on

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Far away in the mountains a shepherd hears their thundering.

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See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

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All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

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Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.

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Then looking at him darkly resourceful Odysseus spoke to him:
"What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?"

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Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun
Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays
Smote the surrounding fields.

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A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

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A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

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The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

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Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

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Son of Atreus, what manner of speech has escaped the barrier of your teeth?

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Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round.

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Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.

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There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.

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By their own follies they perished, the fools.

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