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- The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- 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
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