Homer - Man Quotes

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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Homer

There is nothing more shameless than the accursed belly; it thrusts itself upon a man's mind in spite of his afflictions.

Homer

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

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

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

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I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

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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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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

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And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

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I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

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There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

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What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?

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Surely there is nothing more wretched than a man, of all the things which breathe and move upon the earth.

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A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

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It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.

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I have gone through what no other mortal on earth has gone through;
I put my lips to the hands of the man who has killed my children.

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Man, supposing you and I, escaping this battle,
would be able to live on forever, ageless, immortal,
so neither would I myself go on fighting in the foremost,
nor would I urge you into the fighting where men win glory.
But now, seeing that the spirits of death stand close about us
in their thousands, no man can turn aside or escape them,
let us go on and win glory for ourselves, or yield it to others.

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

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

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For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

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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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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

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I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

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

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Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

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Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

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