Quotes from Homer

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

Immortals are never alien to one another.

Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

Too many kings can ruin an army

Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.

but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms

Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.

The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you'd run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father's face?

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.

Choose well.

B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.

but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away

Say not a word in death's favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead. -Achilles