All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. — Homer Copy Share Image
The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe. — Homer Copy Share Image
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer Copy Share Image
By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent. — 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
Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could… — 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
Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote… — Homer Copy Share Image
Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as… — 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
Wine give strenght to weary men. and And wine can of their wits the wise beguile. Make the sage frolic, and the… — Homer Copy Share Image
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, 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 Image
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. — Homer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
