Homer Quotes
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Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.
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A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.
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Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
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Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.
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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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A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.
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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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Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
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Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
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A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
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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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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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Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.
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Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
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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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Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
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I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl.
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This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!
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Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
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For love deceives the best of woman kind.
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
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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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Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.
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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.