Homer quotes - page 2

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. (Homer)
The blade itself incites to deeds of violence. View quote
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Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness? View quote
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Aries in his many fits knows no favorites. View quote
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A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time. View quote
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A small rock holds back a great wave. View quote
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By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember. View quote
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A glorious death is his Who for his country falls. View quote
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Victory passes back and forth between men. View quote
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For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother. View quote
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Think not to match yourself against gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals. (Homer)
But a man's life breath cannot come back again- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth. View quote
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Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born. View quote
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Ah how shameless - the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share. View quote
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I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth! View quote
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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. View quote
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Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on. View quote
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Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms. View quote
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Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor. View quote
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But the gods give to mortals not everything at the same time. View quote
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Friends, we're hardly strangers at meeting danger. (Homer)
Shameless they give, who give what's not their own. View quote
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So they spoke, and both springing down from behind their horses gripped each other's hands and exchanged the promise of friendship; but Zeus the son of Kronos stole away the wits of Glaukos who exchanged with Diomedes the son of Tydeus armour of gold for bronze, for nine oxen's worth the worth of a hundred. View quote
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Lordship for many is no good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. View quote
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So here the twins were laid low at Aeneas' hands, down they crashed like lofty pine trees axed. View quote
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