Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say - when they have only their own madness to think if their miseries are worse than they ought to be.
("The Odyssey")
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Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.Homer
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Homer
The ruins of himself now worn away With age, yet still majestic in decay.
Homer
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
Homer
'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
Homer
Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.
Homer
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