Quotes from Homer

Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord.

Men flourish only for a moment.

Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings—their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

She [Aphrodite] spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and in it desire and in it blandishing persuasion which steals the mind even of the wise.

Victory shifts from man to man.

Rosy-fingered dawn appeared, the early-born.

Ocean, who is the source of all.

Son of Atreus, what manner of speech has escaped the barrier of your teeth?

Your heart is always harder than a stone.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

Surely there is nothing more wretched than a man, of all the things which breathe and move upon the earth.

They strove to pile Ossa on Olympus, and on Ossa Pelion with its leafy forests, that they might scale the heavens.

Endure, my heart: you once endured something even more dreadful.

Gray-eyed Athena sent them a favorable breeze, a fresh west wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.

For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Hades is relentless and unyielding.

Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles, a destroying wrath which brought upon the Achaeans myriad woes, and sent forth to Hades many valiant souls of heroes.

Unquenchable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.