Homer Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

  Homer

  Patience, Fate, Soul

  Homer (1950). “The Iliad”, Signet

• The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.

  Homer

  Spring, Wind, Tree

• Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

  Homer

  Dream, Two, Ivory

• Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

  Homer

  Moving, Men, Breathing

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.5156, Delphi Classics

• My hour at last has come;
  Yet not ingloriously or passively
  I die, but first will do some valiant deed,
  Of which mankind shall hear in after time.

  Homer

  Deeds, Lasts, Firsts

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.271

• And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,
  The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.

  Homer

  Mind, Lasts, Bears

  Homer, John Selby WATSON (1858). “The Odyssey of Homer; Translated by Alexander Pope. To which are Added the Battle of the Frogs and Mice by Parnell; and the Hymns by Chapman and Others. With Observations and Brief Notes by the Rev. J. S. Watson ... Illustrated with the Entire Series of Flaxman's Designs”, p.217

• Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.

  Homer

  Hurt, Helping, Shame

• [But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

  Homer

  Hands, Enemy, Age

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.50, Xist Publishing

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