For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.
HOMERFor a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.
HOMERIf you serve too many masters, you’ll soon suffer.
HOMERYet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.
HOMERFor too much rest becomes a pain.
HOMERThere is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
HOMERIt is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
HOMERTo speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
HOMERThe sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.
HOMERMany shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
HOMERMost grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.
HOMERHateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
HOMERNo one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man’s hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
HOMERThe proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him.
HOMERMy life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius.
HOMERGoddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.
HOMERImmortals are never alien to one another.
HOMER