Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke. — 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
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth. — 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
Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man. — Homer Copy Share Image
The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree. — Homer Copy Share Image
Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving. — 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,… — 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
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 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
O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may… — 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
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
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many… — Homer Copy Share Image
Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man… — Homer Copy Share Image
One man is a splendid fighter -- a god has made him so -- one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and… — Homer Copy Share Image
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning… — Homer Copy Share Image
If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what… — 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
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
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
All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks… — Homer Copy Share Image
Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery. — 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