For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man! — Homer Copy Share Image
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot. — Homer Copy Share Image
The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death. — Homer Copy Share Image
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. — Homer Copy Share Image
Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below. — 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
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
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
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive… — Homer Copy Share Image
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. — Homer Copy Share Image
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule… — 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
…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. — Homer Copy Share Image
Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man… — Homer Copy Share Image
I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all… — Homer Copy Share Image
Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the… — Homer Copy Share Image
[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of… — Homer Copy Share Image
O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of… — Homer Copy Share Image
And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles'… — Homer Copy Share Image
Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the… — Homer Copy Share Image
Whoever among men who walk the Earth has seen these Mysteries is blessed, but whoever in uninitiated and has not received his… — 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
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