Homer Quotes

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Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

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The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

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Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

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[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

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Friends, we have not till now been unacquainted with misfortunes.

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Great-hearted Stentor with brazen voice, who could shout as loud as fifty other men.

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Achilles' cursed anger sing, O goddess, that son of Peleus, which started a myriad sufferings for the Achaeans.

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Then dark death seized Argus, as soon as he had seen Odysseus in the twentieth year.

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Then the father held out the golden scales, and in them he placed two fates of dread death.

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The Erinyes, who exact punishment of men underground if one swears a false oath.

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Thus she spoke; and I longed to embrace my dead mother's ghost. Thrice I tried to clasp her image, and thrice it slipped through my hands, like a shadow, like a dream.

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If fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

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If you are one of earth's inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man's destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

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Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

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Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess— so she strikes our eyes!

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Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.

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Not even Achilles will bring all his words to fulfillment.

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Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

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