Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
HOMERWise to resolve, and patient to perform.
HOMERYoung men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
HOMERThere is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
HOMERMy every impulse bends to what is right.
HOMERLet me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
HOMERPray, for all men need the aid of the gods.
HOMERThere is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
HOMERHow prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
HOMERThe roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.
HOMERThe difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.
HOMERTo speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
HOMERFor too much rest becomes a pain.
HOMERThere will be killing till the score is paid.
HOMERThere is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
HOMERSome things you will think of yourself, some things God will put into your mind.
HOMERI long for home, long for the sight of home.
HOMER