Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below. — Homer Copy Share Image
All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve. — Homer Copy Share Image
Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but… — Homer Copy Share Image
That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for… — Homer Copy Share Image
The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men… — Homer Copy Share Image
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have… — Homer Copy Share Image
Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly… — Homer Copy Share Image
Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives,… — Homer Copy Share Image
Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there… — Homer Copy Share Image
[B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones… — Homer Copy Share Image
“The lord of distant archery, Apollo, answered: "Lord of earthquake, sound of mind you could not call me if I strove with… — Homer Copy Share Image
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for… — 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
![“[B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.” quote by Homer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/04b/homer-357_body_b-ut-it-is-only-what-happens-when-they-d_1170176.png)
