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„Think not to match yourself against gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.“
„Let us put our griefs to rest in our own hearts…What good’s to be won from tears that chill the spirit?So the immortals spun our lives that we, we wretched menlive on to bear such torments—the gods live free of sorrows.“
„Prayers are Jove’s daughters, of celestial race,Lame are their feet, and wrinkled is their face;With humble mien, and with dejected eyes,Constant they follow where Injustice flies.“
„The gods don’t hand out all their gifts at once,not build and brains and flowing speech to all.“
„I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before—I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my son.“
„For a man will not have strength to fight his way forward all daylong until the sun goes down if he is starved for food.“
„Grey-eyed Athene sent them a favourable gale, a fresh West Wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.“
„Cursed is the man, and void of law and right,Unworthy property, unworthy light,Unfit for public rule, or private care,That wretch, that monster, that delights in war:Whose lust is murder, and whose horrid joyTo tear his country, and his kind destroy!“
„He spoke, the son of Kronos, and nodded his head with the dark brows,and the immortally anointed hair of the great godswept from his divine head, and all Olympos was shaken.“
„As when in harp and song adept, a bardUnlab’ring strains the chord to a new lyre.“
„There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.“
„And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once.“
„But a man’s life breath cannot come back again—no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,once it slips through a man’s clenched teeth.“
„No man who fights with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his knees when he returns from battle.“
„And uncontrollable laughter broke from the happy godsas they watched the god of fire breathing hardand bustling through the halls.“
„Who, on his own,has ever really known who gave him life?“
„It’s light work for the gods who rule the skiesto exalt a mortal man or bring him low.“
„A deep sleep took hold upon him and eased the burden of his sorrows.“
„Friends, we’re hardly strangers at meeting danger.“
„His cold remains all naked to the sky,On distant shores unwept, unburied lie.“
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