How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men. — Homer Copy Share Image
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. — Homer Copy Share Image
Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below. — 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
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. — Homer Copy Share Image
I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled… — Homer Copy Share Image
The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men… — Homer Copy Share Image
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses… — Homer Copy Share Image
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither… — Homer Copy Share Image
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. — Homer Copy Share Image
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive… — Homer Copy Share Image
…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. — Homer Copy Share Image
Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could… — Homer Copy Share Image
And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious… — Homer Copy Share Image
Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions,… — Homer Copy Share Image
Wine give strenght to weary men. and And wine can of their wits the wise beguile. Make the sage frolic, and the… — Homer Copy Share Image
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until… — Homer Copy Share Image
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot. — Homer Copy Share Image
For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man! — Homer Copy Share Image
In saffron-colored mantle from the tides Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light TO gods and men. — Homer Copy Share Image
What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands? — Homer Copy Share Image
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days. — Homer Copy Share Image
“Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth” — Homer Copy Share Image
To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. — Homer Copy Share Image
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule… — Homer Copy Share Image
Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although… — Homer Copy Share Image
There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the… — Homer Copy Share Image
...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows… — Homer Copy Share Image
Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote… — 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
