Homer Quotes

The blessed gods have no love for crime.
They honor justice, honor the decent acts of men.

My name is Nobody.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

The Fates have given mortals hearts that can endure.

Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles,
murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses,
hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls,
great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion,
feasts for the dogs and birds,
and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end.
Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed,
Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

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

ἶσόν τοι κακόν ἐσθ', ὅς τ' οὐκ ἐθέλοντα νέεσθαι
ξεῖνον ἐποτρύνῃ καὶ ὃς ἐσσύμενον κατερύκῃ.
χρὴ ξεῖνον παρεόντα φιλεῖν, ἐθέλοντα δὲ πέμπειν.

The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

Διὸς δ’ ἐτελείετο βουλή.

The Odyssey, trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin, 1997),

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Trojans and Achaians, who like wolves sprang upon one another, with man against man in the onfall.

Ama kaçış yok ecelden, zamanı geldiğinde her insan,
en sevgili kullar bile göçüp giderler bu dünyadan.

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...