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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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The chance of war
Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

He is a fool
Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

I hate
To tell again a tale once fully told.

Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd!

Short is my date, but deathless my renown.

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

Locking spear by spear, shield against shield at the base, so buckler
leaned on buckler, helmet on helmet, man against man.

Iliad (-750)

Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above
With ease can save each object of his love;
Wide as his will, extends his boundless grace.

There she encountered Sleep, the brother of Death.

Iliad (-750)

Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!

In saffron-colored mantle from the tides
Of Ocean rose the Morning to bring light
To gods and men.

Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
The woes of man; Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

Then Sleep and Death, two twins of winged race,
Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

Oh, wonder! Even in the house of Hades there is left something,
a soul and an image, but there is no real heart of life in it.

Iliad (-750)

Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.

It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

Now down in the Ocean sank the fiery light of day,
drawing the dark night across the grain-giving earth.

Iliad (-750)

Attribution

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