Homer

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. ↗

— Homer

#life #inspirational

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. ↗

— Homer

#greece #longing #love #lovers #love

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. ↗

— Homer

#friendship #home #marriage #friendship

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face? ↗

— Homer

#family #greece #insult #family

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail. ↗

— Homer

#equality

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. ↗

— Homer

#death #greece #death

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other. ↗

— Homer

#greece #love #passion #peace #faith

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved. ↗

— Homer

#journey #odyssey #love

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes! ↗

— Homer

#beauty

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war. ↗

— Homer

#priority #war #wisdom #love