Homer - Gods Quotes

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Attach a golden chain from heaven, and all of you take hold of it, you gods and goddesses, yet would you not be able to drag Zeus the most high from heaven to earth.

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The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

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Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

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The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.

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Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

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Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings—their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

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Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

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If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

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Olympus, where they say there is an abode of the gods, ever unchanging: it is neither shaken by winds nor ever wet with rain, nor does snow come near it, but clear weather spreads cloudless about it, and a white radiance stretches above it.

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Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

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So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace—neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

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Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.

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I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

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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.

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Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

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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.

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And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.

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The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

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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.

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This is the way
the gods ordained the destiny of men,
to bear such burdens in our lives, while they
feel no affliction.

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See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

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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.

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

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Surely these things lie on the knees of the gods.

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Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

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It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

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Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

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Even if you gods, and all the goddesses too, should be looking on, yet would I be glad to sleep with golden Aphrodite.

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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 the lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

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