Homer quotes - page 4

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed. (Homer)
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth. View quote
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I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men. View quote
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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. View quote
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Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die. View quote
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I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another. View quote
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Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide. View quote
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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings. View quote
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! View quote
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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. View quote
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Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired. (Homer)
Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind. View quote
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Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish. View quote
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A physician is worth more than several other men put together, for he can cut out arrows and spread healing herbs. View quote
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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. View quote
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Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell. View quote
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If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer. View quote
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Just take in peace what gifts the gods will send. View quote
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[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told. View quote
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some things you will think of yourself,... some things God will put into your mind. View quote
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... like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance. (Homer)
out of sight, out of mind. View quote
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Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes! View quote
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Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure... For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those. View quote
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down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms. View quote
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