Homer Quotes

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Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

Homer
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

Homer
The son of Kronos [Zeus] spoke, and nodded with his darkish brows, and immortal locks fell forward from the lord's deathless head, and he made great Olympus tremble.

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But sure the eye of time beholds no name,
So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.

Homer
And the plan of Zeus was being accomplished.

Homer
I would rather be tied to the soil as another man's serf, even a poor man's, who hadn't much to live on himself, than be King of all these the dead and destroyed.

Homer
A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
One should our interests and our passions be,
My friend must hate the man that injures me.

Homer
Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings—their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

Homer
It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

Homer
Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

Homer
Like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

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He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

Homer
Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

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But he, mighty man, lay mightily in the whirl of dust, forgetful of his horsemanship.

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Remembering this, he wept bitterly, lying now on his side, now on his back, now on his face.

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Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

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Yet with his powers of augury he [Chromis] did not save himself from dark death.

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They ran, one fleeing, and one pursuing. In front a good man fled, but one mightier far pursued him swiftly; for it was not for beast of sacrifice or for bull's hide that they strove, such as are men's prizes for swiftness of foot, but it was for the life of horse-taming Hector that they ran.
Achilles and Hector

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So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

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But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

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Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

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As the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyelids for me as I lay dying into Hades.

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It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.

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Great Priam entered in, and coming close to Achilles, clasped in his hands his knees, and kissed his hands, the terrible, man-slaying hands that had slain his many sons.

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In the extravagance of her evil she has brought shame both on herself and on all women who will come after her, even on one who is virtuous.

Homer