Homer

Quote link. Other quotes about: words: "A companion's words of persuasion are effective."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man sleep: "A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends: "A decent boldness ever meets with friends."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god men need: "All men have need of the gods."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small: "All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth men love: "Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good rule: "A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small: "A small rock holds back a great wave."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength glory fear: "At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old man young: "A young man is embarrassed to question an older one."
Quote link.: "By their own follies they perished, the fools."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rest: "Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man dreams mankind: "Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them."
Quote link.: "Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death man hard: "Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Evil deeds do not prosper the slow man catches up with the swift."
Quote link. Other quotes about: father worse: "For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."
Quote link.: "He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live children child: "He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "How God ever brings like to like."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god think: "If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god men man light: "In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live man dead rule: "I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death old man naked young: "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. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals."
Quote link.: "It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong wish: "It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength: "It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die man country: "It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country."
Quote link.: "It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told."
Quote link. Other quotes about: dead: "I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god evil fact: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god friend nothing house friends husband wife mind: "May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength earth believe god day never men man father evil success future: "Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men glory: "Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help."
Quote link. Other quotes about: understand: "Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god men good look: "So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die find friend: "The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man mankind soul: "The fates have given mankind a patient soul."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right god men: "The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god change mind: "The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: war words: "The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love sleep: "There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength men: "There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time man sleep words: "There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing plans woman husband: "There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend nothing people man house friends wife: "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sin single country: "The single best augury is to fight for one's country."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man wise sin words: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god live evil: "Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth men: "We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day man: "Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old men man change mind look: "Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sin child: "You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god man good war mind: "You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men plans: "Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment."

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