Homer quotes - page 10

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go. (Homer)
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. View quote
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So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence. View quote
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Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him. View quote
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Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one-so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim-the greater man. View quote
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Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. View quote
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There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder. View quote
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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men. View quote
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Always it is, that the hearts in the younger men are frivolous, but when an elder man is among them, he looks behind him and in front, so that all comes out far better for both sides. (Homer)
Few sons, indeed, are like their fathers. Generally they are worse; but just a few are better. View quote
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Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth, our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man. View quote
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No shame in running, fleeing disaster, even in pitch darkness. Better to flee from death than feel its grip. View quote
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Life is largely a matter of expectation. View quote
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Now always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above the others. View quote
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Some of the words you'll find within yourself, the rest some power will inspire you to say. View quote
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I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before- I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my son. View quote
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Nevertheless I long-I pine, all my days- to travel home and see the dawn of my return. View quote
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And some day let them say of him: 'He is better by far than his father. View quote
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Who on earth could blame them? Ah, no wonder the men of Troy and Argives under arms have suffered years of agony all for her, for such a woman. Beauty, terrible beauty! A deathless goddess-so she strikes our eyes! (Homer)
For a man will not have strength to fight his way forward all day long until the sun goes down if he is starved for food. View quote
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Three times I rushed toward her, desperate to hold her, three times she fluttered through my fingers, sifting away like a shadow, dissolving like a dream. View quote
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And gods in guise of strangers from afar in every form do roam our cities, marking the sin and righteousness of men. View quote
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So now I meet my doom. Well let me die- but not without struggle, not without glory, no, in some great clash of arms that even men to come will hear of down the years! View quote
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