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“No more entreating of me, you dog, by knees or parents.”

Homér Iliad

XXII. 345 (tr. R. Lattimore); Achilles to Hector.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Not iron, trust me,
the heart within my breast. I am all compassion.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

V. 190–191 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“And uncontrollable laughter broke from the happy gods
as they watched the god of fire breathing hard
and bustling through the halls.”

Homér Iliad

I. 599–600 (tr. Robert Fagles); hence the expression "Homeric laughter".
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.”

Homér Iliad

IX. 443 (tr. Andrew Lang).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XIX. 13 (tr. Robert Fagles); Odysseus to Telemachus.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“It is the god who accomplishes all things.”

Homér Iliad

XIX. 90 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“There shall be a dawn or an afternoon or a noontime
when some man in the fighting will take the life from me also
either with a spearcast or an arrow flown from the bowstring.”

Homér Iliad

XXI. 110 (tr. R. Lattimore); spoken by Achilles.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Clearly doing good puts doing bad to shame.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XXII. 374 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“How ill, alas! do want and shame agree!”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XVII. 347 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Long nights the now declining year bestows;
A part we consecrate to soft repose,
A part in pleasing talk we entertain;
For too much rest itself becomes a pain.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XV. 392–394 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“The time for trusting women's gone forever!”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XI. 456 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Alexander Pope's translation:
: For since of womankind so few are just,
Think all are false, nor even the faithful trust.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“To some the powers of bloody war belong,
To some, sweet music, and the charm of song;
To few, and wondrous few, has Jove assigned
A wise, extensive, all-considering mind.”

Homér Iliad

XIII. 730–733 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Victory passes back and forth between men.”

Homér Iliad

VI. 339 (tr. R. Lattimore); Paris contemplates the fickleness of victory as he prepares to go into battle.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.”

Homér Iliad

X. 173–174 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“So nothing is as sweet as a man's own country,
his own parents, even though he's settled down
in some luxurious house, off in a foreign land
and far from those who bore him.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

IX. 34–36 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“In form of Stentor of the brazen voice,
Whose shout was as the shout of fifty men.”

Homér Iliad

V. 785–786 (tr. Lord Derby).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Welcome words on their lips, and murder in their hearts.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XVII. 66 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“But the gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.”

Homér Iliad

IV. 320 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“My soul
Shall bear that also; for, by practice taught,
I have learned patience, having much endured.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

V. 222–223 (tr. William Cowper).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Now down in the Ocean sank the fiery light of day,
drawing the dark night across the grain-giving earth.”

Homér Iliad

VIII. 485–486 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)