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“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”
― Homer

“Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”
― Homer, Iliad

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men”
― Homer

“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.”
― Homer (Odyssey)

“Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“There will be killing till the score is paid.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“The journey is the thing.”
― Homer

“Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.”
― Homer, Iliad

“I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!”
― Homer

“Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Immortals are never alien to one another.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Each man delights in the work that suits him best.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.”
― Homer, Iliad

“It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.”
― Homer

“A small rock holds back a great wave.”
― Homer

“Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.”
― Homer

“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing... it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.”
― homer

“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.”
― Homer

“Life is largely a matter of expectation. ”
― Homer

“Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“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