Homér: Thing

Homér is Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Explore interesting quotes on thing.

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“He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.”

“Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.”

IX. 312–313 (tr. Alexander Pope).
A. H. Chase and W. G. Perry, Jr.'s translation:
: Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is the man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Source: The Iliad

“We men are wretched things.”

Homér Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”

Homér Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“some things you will think of yourself,… some things God will put into your mind”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

“The journey is the thing.”

Homér

“Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.
Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on”

Homér Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“But one can't go without his sleep forever.
The immortals give each thing its proper place
in our mortal lives throughout the good green earth.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XIX. 592–594 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“It is the god who accomplishes all things.”

Homér Iliad

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

“She who is only a little thing at the first, but thereafter
grows until she strides on the earth with her head striking heaven.”

Homér Iliad

IV. 442–443 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Once a thing has been done, the fool sees it.”

Homér Iliad

XVII. 32 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Helios, Sun above us, you who see all, hear all things!”

Homér Iliad

III. 277 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Among all creatures that breathe on earth and crawl on it
there is not anywhere a thing more dismal than man is.”

Homér Iliad

XVII. 446–447 (tr. R. Lattimore); Zeus.
Robert Fagles's translation:
: There is nothing alive more agonized than man
of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“And may the gods accomplish your desire:
a home, a husband, and harmonious
converse with him – the best thing in the world
being a strong house held in serenity
where man and wife agree. Woe to their enemies,
joy to their friends! But all this they know best.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

VI. 180–185 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald); Odysseus to Nausicaa.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“I hate saying the same thing over and over again.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XII. 453–454 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“These things surely lie on the knees of the gods.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

I. 267. Cf. Iliad XVII. 514.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Lordship for many is no good thing. Let there be one ruler,
one king.”

Homér Iliad

II. 204–205 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)