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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
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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
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
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
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey

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