Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery. — Homer Copy Share Image
Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving. — 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
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
Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told… — Homer Copy Share Image
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and… — Homer Copy Share Image
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds. — Homer Copy Share Image
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the… — Homer Copy Share Image
[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of… — 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
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
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence. — 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
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
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him. — 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
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
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
These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no… — 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
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
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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