Homer Quotes On Love, Life, Death, War, Fatherhood -

Homer Quotes On Love, Life, Death, War, Fatherhood

Homer is the alleged founder of ancient Greek literature, the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems. The Iliad is set by a group of Greek kingdoms during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy. This focuses on a conflict over the last year of the war between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles which lasted a few weeks.

Homer Quotes:

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Homer

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Homer

Two urns on Jove’s high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.

Homer

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.

Homer

Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

Homer

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Homer

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Homer

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

Homer

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Homer

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.

Homer
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