Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"Are we to stir up evil war again, with all the sound and fury of battle, or shall we make peace between the two sides?"

• From The Iliad (Book 4, approx. line 10) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"Day after day, one after the other, men fall in their hundreds - would we ever find rest from struggle and suffering? No: we must steel our hearts, bury our dead and let one day's tears suffice."

• From The Iliad (Book 19, approx. line 220) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014). 

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"Grief is endurable when one weeps with an ache in the heart during the day but can at least sleep at night and forget everything, good and bad, once one's eyelids close."

• The Odyssey (Book 20, approximately line 90) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009.

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"The glorious gifts which the gods themselves choose to lavish on a man are not to be despised; no man ever acquires them by his own efforts."

• From The Iliad (Book 3, approx. line 60) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"There's no tenderness in war!"

• From The Iliad (Book 15, approx. line 740) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"The gods listen to the man who goes along with them."

• From The Iliad (Book 1, approx. line 220) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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Homer

Homer (flourished 700 BCE)

"I have known men who saved their country, even though their own people were inferior, by relying on their own brute force, their bravery and their numbers."

• From The Iliad (Book 17, approx. line 330) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"You have no need to be so stubborn. Even the gods themselves, for all their greater majesty, honor and power, are capable of being swayed."

• From The Iliad (Book 9, approx. line 500) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"All his life a guest remembers
the host who has treated him kindly."

• The Odyssey (Book 15) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009.

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"This is the effect of wine - it makes people do crazy things;
it sets the wisest man singing and giggling stupidly; it lures him
on to dance and it makes him blurt out what's better left unsaid."

• The Odyssey (Book 14) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009. 

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"A timid beggar is a bad beggar."

• The Odyssey (Book 17) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009. The quote comes from a line delivered by Penelope. She commenting on Odysseus, who was at the time disguised as a beggar.

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Homer

   
Homer (flourished 700 BCE)

"The War-god in his fury is no respecter of persons."

• The Odyssey (Book 11) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009.

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"It is the law of our mortal nature, when we
come to die. We no longer have sinews keeping the bones and
flesh together; once life has departed from our white bones, all
is consumed by the fierce heat of the blazing fire, and the soul
slips away like a dream and goes fluttering on its way."

• The Odyssey (Book 11) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009.

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"I would rather work the soil as a serf
on hire to some landless impoverished peasant
than be king of all these lifeless dead."

•  The Odyssey (Book 11) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009.
  
  
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Homer

Homer (flourished 700 BCE)

"There's nothing like an ambush for
bringing a man's worth to light and picking out the wretches
from the brave."

• From The Iliad (Book 13) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700)

"Young people are thoughtless as a rule."

• The Odyssey (Book 7) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009.

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"Delusion, eldest daughter of Zeus who
blinds us all, damn her. She never touches the ground with those
soft feet of hers but flits over men's heads, corrupting them and
shackling one man after another."

• From The Iliad (Book 19) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"Few sons, indeed, are like their
fathers. Generally they are worse; but just a few are better."

• The Odyssey (Book 2) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009.

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Homer

Homer (Iliad written c. 700 BCE)

"Battles are won by deeds;
the council-chamber is the place for words. This is no time to
talk, but to fight."

• From The Iliad (Book 16) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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Homer

Homer (writing around 700 BCE)

"So you, above all, must both
give and listen to advice and carry out the suggestion that
others may feel bound to put forward in the common interest."

• From The Iliad (Book 9) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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