Homer Quotes
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Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.
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Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.
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I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.
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And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.
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Trying is the first step toward failure.
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Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
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The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
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The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.
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Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.
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There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.
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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.
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Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.
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Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
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Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?
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Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.
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Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
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No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
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How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.
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For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.
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Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall.
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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
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All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.
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The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.
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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.