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The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it. Homer


The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

Homer (900 BC-800 BC) Discuss

quotation: Homer about friends


The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Homer (900 BC-800 BC) Discuss

quotation: No enemy is worse than bad advice. Sophocles


No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Sophocles (496 BC406 BC) Discuss

QUOTATION: Homer (900 BC-800 BC)


There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer (900 BC-800 BC) Discuss

 

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Quotation: Homer About people and beasts


There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out.

Homer (900 BC-800 BC) Discuss

 

Quotation: Homer on life renewed


Men come and go as leaves year by year upon the trees. Those of autumn the wind sheds upon the ground, but when spring returns the forest buds forth with fresh vines.

Homer (900 BC-800 BC) Discuss

Quotation: Homer on Victory


Victory is ever fickle.

Homer (900 BC-800 BC) Discuss

Quotation: Homer (900 BC -800BC)


Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer (900 BC-800 BC) Discuss

Today Quotation: Homer on war for pastime


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

Homer (900 BC-800 BC) Discuss