Homer Quotes
The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.
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Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
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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.
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It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
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The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.
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It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
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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.
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Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.
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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.
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Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.
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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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One man is a splendid fighter -- a god has made him so -- one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man's chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure.
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There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.
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A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.
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Light is the task where many share the toil.
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There will be killing till the score is paid.
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Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.
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Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power.
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By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember.
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A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.
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Some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind.
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Young people are thoughtless as a rule.
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His descent was like nightfall.
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And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.