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- 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
- Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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