Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") quote: "A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth, For I shall have no hope when thou art gone,-- Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none, And no dear mother."

'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to blee...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love; Brothers in...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow; And what man gives, the gods by man bestow.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd!
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof From sha...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies; And sure he will; for wisdom never lies.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Axylos, Teuthranos's son that dwelt in stablished Arisbe; a man of substance dear to his fellows; f...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; ...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

The first in glory, as the first in place.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

The ruins of himself! now worn away With age, yet still majestic in decay.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Respect us, human, and relieve us, poor.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before hi...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Gloomy as night he stands.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight? Who blushes at the name? When cowards mock the patriot's f...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

And for our country 'tis a bliss to die.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

He serves me most who serves his country best.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

'Tis fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

I live an idle burden to the ground.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Then let him know that hatred without end Or intermission is between us two.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight Do w...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

He ceased: but left so charming on their ear His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act;...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Shakes his ambroisal curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign On...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs Of coming mi...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Jove, thou regent of the skies.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far Outstripping all, comes to every ...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Light is the task when many share the toil.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Go...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

His native home deep imag'd in his soul.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

And every eye Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

A mass enormous! which, in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Soft as some song divine, thy story flows.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

No season now for calm, familiar talk.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. 'Tis ...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

He held his seat; a friend to human race.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

The long historian of my country's woes.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise. ...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe!
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Ajax the great . . . Himself a host.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

The ox-eyes awful Juno.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

And better skilled in dark events to come.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

He is a fool Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Content to follow when we lead the way.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters anoth...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave,...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Achilles absent, was Achilles still.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

And taste The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.
THEOCRITUS OF CHIOS

To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that i...
METRODORUS OF CHIOS

It is not right to glory in the slain.
HOMER

Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.
HOMER

The rose Dawn might have found them weeping still had not grey-eyed Athena slowed the night when nig...
HOMER

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, ...
HOMER

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother
HOMER

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.
HOMER

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

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

Light is the task where many share the toil.
HOMER

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
HOMER

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
HOMER

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
HOMER

I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
HOMER

How vain, without the merit, is the name.
HOMER

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a sing...
HOMER

Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.
HOMER

A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly.
HOMER

At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,
Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:
Then,...
HOMER

For too much rest becomes a pain.
HOMER

There will be killing till the score is paid.
HOMER

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
HOMER

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
HOMER

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
HOMER

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gen...
HOMER

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught th...
HOMER

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
HOMER

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
HOMER

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, ...
HOMER

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
HOMER

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
HOMER

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.
HOMER

The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
HOMER

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their father...
HOMER

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man ...
HOMER

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

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
HOMER

It is not good to have a rule of many.
HOMER

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those wh...
HOMER

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
HOMER

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from th...
HOMER

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
HOMER

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
HOMER

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
HOMER

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

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
HOMER

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
HOMER

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
HOMER

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
HOMER

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
HOMER

Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
HOMER

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp con...
HOMER

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint ...
HOMER

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—mag...
HOMER

Winged words.
HOMER

At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince!...
HOMER

It is a wise child that knows his own father.
HOMER

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
HOMER

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
HOMER

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

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
HOMER

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
HOMER

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
HOMER

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the...
HOMER

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
HOMER

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor ...
HOMER

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the ...
HOMER

May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a ho...
HOMER

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they th...
HOMER

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
HOMER

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You...
HOMER

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood ...
HOMER

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
HOMER

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee co...
HOMER

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, a...
HOMER

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
HOMER

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
HOMER

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
HOMER

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his de...
HOMER

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
HOMER

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
HOMER

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when h...
HOMER

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
HOMER

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the sam...
HOMER

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

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, w...
HOMER

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and...
HOMER

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
HOMER

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to ...
HOMER

I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
HOMER

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
HOMER

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
HOMER

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. F...
HOMER

By their own follies they perished, the fools.
HOMER

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
HOMER

All men have need of the gods.
HOMER

A small rock holds back a great wave.
HOMER

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both...
HOMER

A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth, For I shall have no hope when thou art gone,-- Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none, And no dear mother.

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Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth, For I shall have no hope when thou art gone,-- Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none, And no dear mother.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

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