Homer cytaty

„(…) wolooka (czcigodna) Hera (…).”

„Kto czyni cnotliwie i przed złem się wzdraga, tego sławę po świecie roznoszą pochodnie.”

„Na ziemi nie ma słabszego stworzenia niż człowiek.”

„Nawet statecznych ludzi poglądy mogą się zmienić.”

„Taki już los ludzkich rodów, jak losy nietrwałych liści, Jedne na ziemię wiatr zrzuca liście, a inne wydaje Rozkwitający las, kiedy zbliża się pora wiosenna.”

„Gdzie wiele rąk, tam łatwa praca.”

„Miłość posiada skrzydła, ale też może ich i udzielić.”

„Spośród tych, co oddychają i chodzą po ziemi, nie ma nikogo bardziej godnego pożałowania niż człowiek.”

„To okropne rzucać słowa na wiatr.”

„Muzo! męża wyśpiewaj, co święty gród Troi
Zburzywszy, długo błądził.”

„Los dał ludziom odwagę znoszenia cierpień.”

„Rzeczą człowieka jest walczyć, a rzeczą nieba – dać zwycięstwo.”

„Jeśli kto kocha wojnę domową, jest pozbawiony więzów rodzinnych, prawa i własnego miejsca.”

„W miłości to jest nieszczęściem: raz wojna, raz pokój.”

„Najnowszą pieśń najwięcej ludzie sławią.”

„Jakie słowo wypowiesz, takie usłyszysz.”

„Morze, ten rybi gościniec.”

„Mowa słodsza niż miód.”

„Być zawsze pierwszym i innych przewyższać.”

„Podróżowanie to najwspanialsza rzecz na świecie.”

„Jak los liści na drzewach, taki też los rodu ludzkiego.”

“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be more lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”

“If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.”

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

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”

“And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it,
neither brave man nor coward, I tell you—
it's born with us the day that we are born.”

“Smiling through tears.”

“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war.”

“Life is largely a matter of expectation.”

“And empty words are evil.”

“Few sons, indeed, are like their fathers.
Generally they are worse; but just a few are better.”

“Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth,
our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man.”

“You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!”

“Some of the words you'll find within yourself,
the rest some power will inspire you to say.”

“Now always be the best, my boy, the bravest,
and hold your head up high above the others.”

“Nevertheless I long—I pine, all my days—
to travel home and see the dawn of my return.”

“There is the heat of Love,
the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper,
irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”

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

“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.”

“We men are wretched things.”

“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”

“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”

“The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.”

“Too many kings can ruin an army”

“By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember”

“Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide”

“Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?”

“But Zeus does not bring to accomplishment all thoughts in men's minds.”

“On valour's side the odds of combat lie,
The brave live glorious, or lamented die;
The wretch who trembles in the field of fame,
Meets death, and worse than death, eternal shame.”

“And some day let them say of him:
'He is better by far than his father.”