A biography for Homerhasn’t been written yet.
“אחת ידבר בלשונו ובליבו בו שבע תועבות!”
“אלה הדומים זה לזה מתכנסים יחדיו.”
“אנו יכולים להסכים נגד רצוננו.”
“אדם שעבר ניסיונות מרים ונסע רחוק, נהנה אפילו מסבלו אחרי זמן מה.”
“אין בנמצא תרופה למעשה רע.”
“אל נא תעשה רעה לאיש, ועל כך אל נא תאמר דבר.”
“אין בנמצא דבר חלש יותר על האדמה מאשר האדם.”
“בריאות היא נפש בריאה בגוף בריא.”
“כל בני האדם צריכים אלים.”
“Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.”
“Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.”
“But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.”
“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter never told.”
“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.”
“Light is the task where many share the toil.”
“Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on”
“Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin”
“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.”
“Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.”
“And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself—more birds than women flocking round his body!”