The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. — 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
Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives,… — 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
“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
“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...” — 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
Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the… — 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
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
All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve. — 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
[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
“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
“But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well—for your own son’s death. Never again will… — 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
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
Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death. — 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 Image
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. — Homer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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