Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. — Homer Copy Share Image
“You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?” — Homer Copy Share Image
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. — Homer Copy Share Image
Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee. — Homer Copy Share Image
“Sullen Telemachus said, “Mother, no, you must not criticize the loyal bard for singing as it pleases him to sing. Poets are… — Homer Copy Share Image
“for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Of all the creatures that breathe and creep about on Mother Earth there is none so helpless as man. As long as… — Homer Copy Share Image
“But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his… — Homer Copy Share Image
If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Few sons, indeed, are like their fathers. Generally they are worse; but just a few are better.” — Homer Copy Share Image
Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up… — Homer Copy Share Image
The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor! — Homer Copy Share Image
It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.] — Homer Copy Share Image
Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her… — Homer Copy Share Image
“The day that robs a child of his parents severs him from his own kind; his head is bowed, his cheeks are… — 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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