Homer Quotes

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• Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.
• Young people are thoughtless as a rule.
• How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
• Better to flee from death than feel its grip.
• Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
• By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
• It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
• Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
• For love deceives the best of woman kind.
• The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
• Light is the task where many share the toil.
• Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
• His native home deep imag'd in his soul.
• See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
• Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.
• I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.
• All men have need of the gods.
• For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.
• Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.
• And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.

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