Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. — Homer Copy Share Image
There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands. — Homer Copy Share Image
The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind. — Homer Copy Share Image
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
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of… — 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
Whoever among men who walk the Earth has seen these Mysteries is blessed, but whoever in uninitiated and has not received his… — Homer Copy Share Image
Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the… — Homer Copy Share Image
Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the… — Homer Copy Share Image
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given… — 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
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
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
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
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot. — 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
“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
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
