Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the… — Homer Copy Share Image
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence. — Homer Copy Share Image
A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a… — Homer Copy Share Image
Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail… — Homer Copy Share Image
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or… — Homer Copy Share Image
Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the… — Homer Copy Share Image
Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out… — Homer Copy Share Image
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. — Homer Copy Share
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer Copy Share
“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years… — Homer Copy Share
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. — Homer Copy Share
“And Zeus said: “Hera, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus — for the present let us devote ourselves… — Homer Copy Share
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over… — Homer Copy Share
“Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for… — Homer Copy Share
“With that the dream departed, leaving him there, his heart racing with hopes that would not come to pass. He thought he would take… — Homer Copy Share
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. — Homer Copy Share
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies. — Homer Copy Share
