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- 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
- 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.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- 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.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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