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Famous Homer Quotes
“Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.”
Source: The Odyssey, the Story of Ulysses
Source: Iliad
“By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.”
Source: The odyssey
“It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Alexander Pope
“'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer: Easyread Large Edition
Source: The Homer Anthology
“All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer