The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree… — Homer Copy Share Image
[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and… — Homer Copy Share Image
Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving. — Homer Copy Share Image
My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which… — Homer Copy Share Image
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates:… — Homer Copy Share Image
And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind. — 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
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