Homer Quotes

• Of all the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

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  Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

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• It is no shame for a man to die fighting for his country.

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• This is the best portent, to fight in defence of one’s country.

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• Tribeless, lawless, homeless is he who loves the horror of civil war.

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• One omen is best of all—to fight for your country.

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• Victory switches from man to man.

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• Always to be best, and to be distinguished above the rest.

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• Like that of leaves is a generation of men.

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• He who battles with the immortals does not live long, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has returned from battle.

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• The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

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• Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

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• There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

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• How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

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• Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

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• Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

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• Achilles absent, was Achilles still.

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• Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.

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• Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

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• Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country’s cause.

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Birth:	800 BC
Death:	701 BC
Nationality:	Greek
Profession:	Poet

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Homer was a Greek poet. He is the name ascribed by the Ancient Greeks to the semi-legendary author of the two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the central works of Greek literature.

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