In saffron-colored mantle from the tides Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light TO gods and men. — 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
The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind. — Homer Copy Share Image
Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. — Homer Copy Share Image
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke. — 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
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
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. — Homer Copy Share Image
How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men. — Homer Copy Share Image
Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness? — Homer Copy Share Image
A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time — 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
I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another. — Homer Copy Share Image
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
The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree. — Homer Copy Share Image
Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man. — 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
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
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
For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you… — 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
Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in 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
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