Homer
Homer
Homeris best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
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Death submits to no one.
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I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.
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A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
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Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
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Better to flee from death than feel its grip.
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Short is my date, but deathless my renown.
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That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.
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And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
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My friend should honor him who honors me.
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There is nothing more admirable than two people who see eye-to-eye keeping house as man and wife, confounding their enemies, and delighting thier friends.
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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
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