Homer Quotes

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The immortals will send you to the Elysian plain at the ends of the earth, where fair-haired Rhada-manthys is. There life is supremely easy for men. No snow is there, nor ever heavy winter storm, nor rain, and Ocean is ever sending gusts of the clear-blowing west wind to bring coolness to men.

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The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

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He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

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Always to be best, and to be distinguished above the rest.

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A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

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Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles, a destroying wrath which brought upon the Achaeans myriad woes, and sent forth to Hades many valiant souls of heroes.

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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

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The life, which others pay, let us bestow,
And give to fame what we to nature owe.

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By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

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The Olympian is a difficult foe to oppose.

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The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

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Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

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They tug, they sweat, but neither gain, nor yield
One foot, one inch of the contended field.

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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

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He [Thersites] was the ugliest man who came to Ilium.

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Even if you gods, and all the goddesses too, should be looking on, yet would I be glad to sleep with golden Aphrodite.

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