Homer quotes

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. (Homer)
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. View quote
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war. View quote
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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. View quote
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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this. View quote
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Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. View quote
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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. View quote
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All men need the gods... View quote
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No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born. View quote
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Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly. View quote
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Each man delights in the work that suits him best. (Homer)
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us. View quote
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Immortals are never alien to one another. View quote
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Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other. View quote
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Sing to me, Muse, of the wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus, which brought countless ills upon the Acheans. View quote
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Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness-she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. View quote
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His descent was like nightfall. View quote
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True friends appear less moved than counterfeit. (Homer)
Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death. View quote
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You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you'd run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat-coward! View quote
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There will be killing till the score is paid. View quote
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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. View quote
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