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Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος) is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets.
Also known as: Homer's Odyssey, Homeric
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There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.
Iliad (-750)
Think not to match yourself against gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
Iliad (-750)
Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
Iliad (-750)
There is the heat of Love,
Iliad (-750)
A glorious death is his
Iliad (-750)
Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
Iliad (-750)
Victory passes back and forth between men.
Iliad (-750)
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
For love deceives the best of woman kind.
Now always be the best, my boy, the bravest,
Iliad (-750)
Among all creatures that breathe on earth and crawl on it
Iliad (-750)
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is the man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.
Iliad (-750)
Few sons attain the praise of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace.
Light is the task when many share the toil.
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day
Proud is the heart of kings, fostered of heaven; for their honour is from Zeus, and Zeus, god of counsel, loveth them.
And would'st thou evil for his good repay?
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