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Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the b	Homer, The Odyssey
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.	Homer, The Odyssey
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.	Homer, The Odyssey
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.	Homer, 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, The Odyssey
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.	Homer, 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, The Odyssey
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.	Homer, The Odyssey
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.	Homer, The Odyssey
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.	Homer, The Odyssey