I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead. — Homer Copy Share Image
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. — Homer Copy Share Image
Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death. — Homer Copy Share Image
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. — Homer Copy Share Image
She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all… — Homer Copy Share Image
“But death is a thing that comes to all alike. Not even the gods can fend it away from a man they… — Homer Copy Share Image
“I would rather follow the plow as thrall to another man, one with no land allotted him and not much to live… — Homer Copy Share Image
“As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.” — Homer Copy Share Image
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Say not a word in death's favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above… — Homer Copy Share Image
That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for… — Homer Copy Share Image
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have… — Homer Copy Share Image
Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but… — Homer Copy Share Image
“L. 151. Chthizos, yesterday. But either the word must have a more extended signification than is usually given to it, or Homer… — Homer Copy Share Image
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held… — Homer Copy Share Image
I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all… — Homer Copy Share Image
[B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones… — Homer Copy Share Image
Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most… — Homer Copy Share Image
“For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can… — Homer Copy Share Image
“The lord of distant archery, Apollo, answered: "Lord of earthquake, sound of mind you could not call me if I strove with… — Homer Copy Share Image
Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And… — Homer Copy Share Image
The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death. — Homer Copy Share Image
All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve. — Homer Copy Share Image
Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is… — Homer Copy Share Image
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. — Homer Copy Share
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer Copy Share
“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years… — Homer Copy Share
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. — Homer Copy Share
“And Zeus said: “Hera, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus — for the present let us devote ourselves… — Homer Copy Share
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over… — Homer Copy Share
“Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for… — Homer Copy Share
“With that the dream departed, leaving him there, his heart racing with hopes that would not come to pass. He thought he would take… — Homer Copy Share
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. — Homer Copy Share
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies. — Homer Copy Share
![“[B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.” quote by Homer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/04b/homer-357_body_b-ut-it-is-only-what-happens-when-they-d_1170176.png)
