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Homer quotes about men

Greek Poet

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Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire. Homer
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they saythat we devise their misery. But theythemselves- in their depravity- designgrief greater than the griefs that fate assigns. Homer
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 the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. Homer
Homer quote: "Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the..."
Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth Homer
What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own transgressions which bring them suffering that was not their destiny. Homer
Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierceas the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one -and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle! Homer
Homer quote: "I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in..."
I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men Homer
Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter. Homer
The lord of distant archery, Apollo, answered: "Lord of earthquake, sound of mindyou could not call me if I strove with youfor the sake of mortals, poor things that they are. Ephemeral as the flamelike budding leaves, men flourish on the ripe wheat of the grainland, then in spiritless age they waste and die. Homer
There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Homer
Homer quote: "Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man..."
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. Homer
...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep. Homer
Homer quote: "We men are wretched things."
We men are wretched things. Homer

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