1. Homer
Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns. Today the hymns are considered to be later works but many still regard Homer as the author or compiler of the more..

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Homer :There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. #Words

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Homer :He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. #

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Homer :The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. #Friends and Friendship

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Homer : Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired. #Friends and Friendship

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Homer :Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. #Grief

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Homer :Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help. #Law and Lawyers

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Homer :You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. #Gambling

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Homer :There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men. #Marriage

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Homer : The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing. #Persuasion

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Homer : It is not right to glory in the slain. #Uncategorised

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Homer :A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. #Nature

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Homer :Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them. #Dreams

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Homer :He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray. #Growth

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Homer :How God ever brings like to like. #God

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Homer :May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown. #Friends and Friendship

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Homer :It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive. #Strength

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Homer :Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies. #Blame

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Homer :All men have need of the gods. #God

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Homer : Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this. #Adversity

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Homer : Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. #Patriotism

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