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Homer Quotes

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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Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

And for our country 'tis a bliss to die.

The day will come when sacred Troy must die,
Priam must die and all his people with him,
Priam who hurls the strong ash spear!

Iliad (-750)

A physician is worth more than several other men put together, for he can cut out arrows and spread healing herbs.

Iliad (-750)

No man who fights with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his knees when he returns from battle.

Iliad (-750)

You wine sack, with a dog's eyes, with a deer's heart.

Iliad (-750)

If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.

Iliad (-750)

It is the god who accomplishes all things.

Iliad (-750)

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell,
Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart,
Utters another.

Such love
As to his only son, his well-beloved,
The heir to all his wealth, a father shows.

Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend;
And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.

Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales,
And the good suffers while the bad prevails.

Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow;
And what man gives, the gods by man bestow.

Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,
The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.

And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,
The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.

But sure the eye of time beholds no name,
So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.

Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro,
In all the raging impotence of woe.

Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below.

Thou wilt lament
Hereafter, when the evil shall be done
And shall admit no cure.

It never was our guise
To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Homer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.