Quotes By Homer
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
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A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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.
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It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
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It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
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Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.
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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.
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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
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The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
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The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
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There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
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There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.
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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.
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