Homer Quotes
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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
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Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.
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Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
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Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
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For love deceives the best of woman kind.
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…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
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And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.
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No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
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Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
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I guess some people never change... Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.
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Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.
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It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.
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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
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If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.
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I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl.
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Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.
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Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
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So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
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Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
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Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.
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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.
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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.