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Homer quotes

Greek Poet

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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them. Homer
Homer quote: "The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie..."
The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us. Homer
Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say - when they have only their own madness to think if their miseries are worse than they ought to be. Homer
Homer quote: "Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that..."
Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals. Homer
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
Homer quote: "As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close..."
As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades. Homer
Homer quote: "some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will..."
some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind Homer
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born. Homer
Homer quote: "There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for..."
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. 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
Homer quote: "like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars..."
...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance. 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
[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool? it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter never told. Homer
Homer quote: "Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own..."
Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable 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

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