The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree. — Homer Copy Share Image
How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men. — 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
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 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
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
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
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. — 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
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
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
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
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
For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the… — Homer Copy Share Image
I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another. — 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
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the… — Homer Copy Share Image
A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a… — 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