Homer Quotes

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Gray-eyed Athena sent them a favorable breeze, a fresh west wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.

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It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

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Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's cursed appetite.

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For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother

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You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another the lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

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The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

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There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord.

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Athene sent them a following breeze, a strong west wind that whistled over the wine-dark sea.

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O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

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It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

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But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

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There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

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By the ships there lies a dead man, unwept, unburied: Patroclus.

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For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.

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Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

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Here on the monarch's speech Achilles broke
And furious thus, and interrupting, spoke.

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I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.

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Attach a golden chain from heaven, and all of you take hold of it, you gods and goddesses, yet would you not be able to drag Zeus the most high from heaven to earth.

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The thick tresses of gold with which Vulcan had crested the helmet floated round it, and as the evening star that shines brighter than all others through the stillness of night, even such was the gleam of the spear which Achilles poised in his right hand, fraught with the death of noble Hector.

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And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.

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