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Own Quotes by Homer
- See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
- And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.
- It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which…
- A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!
- And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he…
- I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.
- Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for…
- The journey is its own reward.
- Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with…
- Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
- Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable
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