“For never, never, wicked man was wise.”
Source: The Iliad ...
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“All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.”
“The lot of man-to suffer and die.”
Source: Odyssey
“To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)
“A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.”
Source: The Odyssey of Homer
“Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.”
Source: Homer
Source: The Homer Anthology
Source: The odyssey
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.”
Source: The illustrated Odyssey
“The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.”
Source: The odyssey
“I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.”
Source: The illustrated Odyssey
“The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Alexander Pope
“Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.”
Source: The Odyssey of Homer: Translated from the Greek
Source: The Iliad of Homer
Source: The Iliad of Homer