Homer quotes - page 9

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius. (Homer)
Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing. View quote
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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. View quote
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Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year. View quote
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There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love. View quote
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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. View quote
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By their own follies they perished, the fools. View quote
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And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body! (Homer)
It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long. View quote
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If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift. View quote
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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. View quote
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And would'st thou evil for his good repay. View quote
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The single best augury is to fight for one's country. View quote
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A companion's words of persuasion are effective. View quote
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By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made. View quote
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Thou know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgment weak. View quote
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The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe. View quote
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I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. (Homer)
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. View quote
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Achilles absent, was Achilles still. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told. View quote
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