Homer cytaty

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„(…) 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.”

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

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

“It is the god who accomplishes all things.”

“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.”

“Clearly doing good puts doing bad to shame.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Victory passes back and forth between men.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Now sure enough the vile man leads the vile!
As ever, god brings like and like together!”

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

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

“Sweet oblivion, sleep
dissolving all, the good and the bad, once it seals our eyes.”

“If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy,
my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies.”

“Here let us feast, and to the feast be joined
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind;
Review the series of our lives, and taste
The melancholy joy of evils passed:
For he who much has suffered, much will know,
And pleased remembrance builds delight on woe.”

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

“Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales,
And the good suffers, while the bad prevails.”

“It's wrong, my friend, to send any stranger packing—
even one who arrives in worse shape than you.
Every stranger and beggar comes from Zeus
and whatever scrap they get from the likes of us,
they'll find it welcome.”

“I hope nothing valuable may have been taken from the house in spite of you, but you know what women are—they always want to do the best they can for the man who marries them, and never give another thought to the children of their first husband, nor to their father either when he is dead and done with.”

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

“Glory to him, but to us a sorrow.”