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XI. 456 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Alexander Pope's translation:
: For since of womankind so few are just,
Think all are false, nor even the faithful trust.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“To some the powers of bloody war belong,
To some, sweet music, and the charm of song;
To few, and wondrous few, has Jove assigned
A wise, extensive, all-considering mind.”

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Homér Iliada

XIII. 730–733 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Victory passes back and forth between men.”

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Homér Iliada

VI. 339 (tr. R. Lattimore); Paris contemplates the fickleness of victory as he prepares to go into battle.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.”

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Homér Iliada

X. 173–174 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“So nothing is as sweet as a man's own country,
his own parents, even though he's settled down
in some luxurious house, off in a foreign land
and far from those who bore him.”

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Homér Odyseja

IX. 34–36 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“In form of Stentor of the brazen voice,
Whose shout was as the shout of fifty men.”

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Homér Iliada

V. 785–786 (tr. Lord Derby).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Welcome words on their lips, and murder in their hearts.”

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Homér Odyseja

XVII. 66 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“But the gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.”

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Homér Iliada

IV. 320 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“My soul
Shall bear that also; for, by practice taught,
I have learned patience, having much endured.”

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Homér Odyseja

V. 222–223 (tr. William Cowper).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Now down in the Ocean sank the fiery light of day,
drawing the dark night across the grain-giving earth.”

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Homér Iliada

VIII. 485–486 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Now sure enough the vile man leads the vile!
As ever, god brings like and like together!”

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Homér Odyseja

XVII. 217–218 (tr. G. H. Palmer).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“She who is only a little thing at the first, but thereafter
grows until she strides on the earth with her head striking heaven.”

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Homér Iliada

IV. 442–443 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Once a thing has been done, the fool sees it.”

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Homér Iliada

XVII. 32 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Sweet oblivion, sleep
dissolving all, the good and the bad, once it seals our eyes.”

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Homér Odyseja

XX. 85–86 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy,
my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies.”

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Homér Iliada

IX. 413 (tr. Robert Fagles); spoken by Achilles.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Here let us feast, and to the feast be joined
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind;
Review the series of our lives, and taste
The melancholy joy of evils passed:
For he who much has suffered, much will know,
And pleased remembrance builds delight on woe.”

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Homér Odyseja

XV. 398–401 (tr. Alexander Pope).
E. V. Rieu's translation:
: Meanwhile let us two, here in the hut, over our food and wine, regale ourselves with the unhappy memories that each can recall. For a man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far can enjoy even his sufferings after a time.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Helios, Sun above us, you who see all, hear all things!”

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Homér Iliada

III. 277 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales,
And the good suffers, while the bad prevails.”

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Homér Odyseja

VI. 188 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“It's wrong, my friend, to send any stranger packing—
even one who arrives in worse shape than you.
Every stranger and beggar comes from Zeus
and whatever scrap they get from the likes of us,
they'll find it welcome.”

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Homér Odyseja

XIV. 56–59 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“I hope nothing valuable may have been taken from the house in spite of you, but you know what women are—they always want to do the best they can for the man who marries them, and never give another thought to the children of their first husband, nor to their father either when he is dead and done with.”

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Homér Odyseja

XV. 19–23 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Among all creatures that breathe on earth and crawl on it
there is not anywhere a thing more dismal than man is.”

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Homér Iliada

XVII. 446–447 (tr. R. Lattimore); Zeus.
Robert Fagles's translation:
: There is nothing alive more agonized than man
of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Glory to him, but to us a sorrow.”

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Homér Iliada

IV. 197 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)