Quotes Tagged With :homer

Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!

The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory,....

Plato utterly condemns the poets for publishing trivial, false and indeed wicked stories about the gods,....

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you....

To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems

As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting....

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;(2)....

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

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth.....