Browsing Quotes With Tag: odyssey (9)
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“So I will tell you something. Listen. Listen closely.
Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth,
Our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man.
So long as the gods grant him power, spring in his knees,
He thinks he will never suffer affliction down the years.
But then, when the happy gods bring on the long hard times,
Bear them he must, against his will, and steel his heart.
Our lives, our mood and mind as we pass across the earth,
Turn as the days turn…
As the father of men and gods makes each day dawn.” AmphinomusSpeaker: HomerPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
That is the gods’ work, spinning threads of death
through the lives of mortal men,
and all to make a song for those to come…Speaker: HomerPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“A pledge for a worthless man is a worthless pledge indeed.” Hephaestus
Speaker: HomerPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“In every venture the bold man comes off best” Odysseus
Speaker: HomerPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“No finer, greater gift in the world than that…
when man and woman possess their home, two minds,
two hearts that work as one.” OdysseusSpeaker: HomerPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“So I rule all this wealth with no great joy.
…The grief that numbs the spirit gluts us quickly.” MenelausSpeaker: HomerPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“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.” ZeusSpeaker: HomerPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
…the Sirens’ song is an invitation to live in the past, and that is a kind of death…
Speaker: Bernard KnoxPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the fate of most new and valuable insights to be enthusiastically developed beyond the limits of certainty, or even of probability.
Speaker: Bernard KnoxPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!