“We men are wretched things.”
The quote "We men are wretched things." is famous quote by Homér, Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Source: The Iliad
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Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the OdysseyRelated quotes
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Context: Nana (to Mariam) : A man's heart isn't like a woman's womb, Mariam! It won't bleed, it won't make room for you. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. I'm all you have in this world, Mariam and when I'm gone, you'll have nothing. You are nothing!
“Gambling is a wretched vice,” Lady Corey replied with a sniff. “A snare for men of weak character.”
Source: Arabella and the Battle of Venus (2017), Chapter 5, “Navigation” (p. 71)
“Most wretched men
Are cradled into poetry by wrong;
They learn in suffering what they teach in song.”
Source: Julian and Maddalo http://www.bartleby.com/139/shel115.html (1819), l. 543
“These wretched kings,
Of whom all men speak ill, have oft some good in them.”
Ces malheureux rois,
Dont on dit tant de mal, ont du bon quelquefois.
Le Meunier de Sans-Souci. (Ed. 1818, Vol. III., p. 205).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 26.
IV. 195–198 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Is it not better to die in a glorious attempt, than, after having been the sport of other men's insolence, to resign a wretched and degraded existence with ignominy?”
Nonne emori per virtutem praestat quam vitam miseram atque inhonestam, ubi alienae superbiae ludibrio fueris, per dedecus amittere?
Source: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter XX, section 9; quoting Catiline
Trachiniæ, 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)