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- By their own follies they perished, the fools.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- All men have need of the gods.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- A small rock holds back a great wave.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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