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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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