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Quotes By author - Starting with H - Homer
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There are 48 quotes for the author Homer
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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Subject:
Friendship
Loyalty
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Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
Subject:
War
Honor
Work: The Iliad
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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Subject:
Love & Romance
Relationship
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I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
Subject:
Death
Honor
Work: The Iliad
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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Subject:
Good
Ethics
Compassion
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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Subject:
Sincerity
Hate
Work: The Iliad
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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
Subject:
Patriotism
Loyalty
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There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
Subject:
Love & Romance
Sleep
Work: The Iliad
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A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
Subject:
Age
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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
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But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
Subject:
Character
Etiquette
Compassion
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Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
Subject:
Advice
Sleep
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It is not good to have a rule of many.
Subject:
Government
Rule
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It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.
Subject:
Decisions
Wisdom
Work: The Odyssey
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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.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams
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A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.
Subject:
Mankind
Civilization
Work: The Iliad
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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Subject:
Sleep
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
Subject:
Politics
Work: The Iliad
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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
Subject:
Music
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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Subject:
Friendship
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