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
...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows… — 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
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
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
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
Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions,… — 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
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until… — Homer Copy Share Image
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many… — Homer Copy Share Image
All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their… — Homer Copy Share Image
A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time — Homer Copy Share Image
Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals. — Homer Copy Share Image
The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree. — Homer Copy Share Image
I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another. — Homer Copy Share Image
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke. — Homer Copy Share Image
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth. — Homer Copy Share Image
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design… — Homer Copy Share Image
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the… — Homer Copy Share Image
All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks… — Homer Copy Share Image
Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and… — Homer Copy Share Image
So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man… — 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
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
Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness? — 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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