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• It is a wise child that knows his own father.
  [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

  Homer

  Wise, Children, Father

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• Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.

  Homer

  Clouds, Wind, White

  Homer (1818). “The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates”, p.342

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• All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

  Homer

  Panic, Selling, Liver

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• Noblest minds are easiest bent.

  Homer

  Mind, Bent, Nobility

  Homer (1729). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.1234, Library of Alexandria

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• Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

  Homer

  Men, Heaven, Sacred

  Homer (1873). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.91

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• Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.

  Homer

  Spring, Men, Wind

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• A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

  Homer

  Men, Age, Young

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• All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

  Homer

  Men, Body, Fats

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• Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.

  Homer

  Winning, Odor, Unions

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• Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!

  Homer

  Military, War, Fall

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• Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.

  Homer

  Kids, Beer, Son

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• The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

  Homer

  War, Hands, Outcomes

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• Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

  Homer

  Grief, Fate, Men

  Homer (2005). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.4, Bantam Classics

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• I long for home, long for the sight of home.

  Homer

  Home, Sight, Long

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1961). “The Odyssey”, Anchor Books

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• Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

  Homer

  Men, Noble, Deeds

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• The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

  Homer

  Son, Dark, Curls

  Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.29

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• Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

  Homer

  Dog, Moving, Loss

  Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

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• Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.

  Homer

  Giving, Ears

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.11

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• ...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

  Homer

  Summer, Stars, Ocean

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.145, University of Chicago Press

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• Jove lifts the golden balances that show
  The fates of mortal men, and things below.

  Homer

  Fate, Men, Balance

  Homer (1773). “The Iliad”, p.423, Hayes Barton Press

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• But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.

  Homer

  Looks, Use, Rage From The Iliad

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• The best things beyond their measure cloy.

  Homer

  Discontent, Best Things

  Homer (1796). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.81

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• 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

  Daughter, Men, Feet

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• …but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

  Homer

  Wife, Rage From The Iliad, Fields

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• Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

  Homer

  Grief, Blessing, Two

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