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- There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- 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
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