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- 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
- We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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