Homer - Odyssey

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You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

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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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For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

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Athene sent them a following breeze, a strong west wind that whistled over the wine-dark sea.

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It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

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She [Helen] threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills.

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And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.

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No mortal could vie with Zeus, for his mansions and his possessions are deathless.

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All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

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Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

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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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In the extravagance of her evil she has brought shame both on herself and on all women who will come after her, even on one who is virtuous.

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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

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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.

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Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

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All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.

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Friends, we have not till now been unacquainted with misfortunes.

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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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Tell me, muse, of the man of many resources who wandered far and wide after he sacked the holy citadel of Troy, and he saw the cities and learned the thoughts of many men, and on the sea he suffered in his heart many woes.

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Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

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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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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

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Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

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We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

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A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

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Surely these things lie on the knees of the gods.

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Therefore don't you be gentle to your wife either. Don't tell her everything you know, but tell her one thing and keep another thing hidden.

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Therefore the fame of her excellence will never perish, and the immortals will fashion among earthly men a gracious song in honor of faithful Penelope.

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