“The recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all.”
I. 7 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.”
Source: The Odyssey
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Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the OdysseyRelated quotes
“See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.”
I. 32–34 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Edwin Markham
(1852–1940) American poet
"A Creed To Mr. David Lubin", stanza 1, LINCOLN & Other Poems (1901), page 25.
Context: There is a destiny that makes us brothers:
None goes his way alone:
All that we send into the lives of others
Comes back onto our own.
I care not what his temples or his creeds,
One thing holds firm and fast
That into his fateful heap of days and deeds
The soul of man is cast.
“Snatch him, ye Gods, from mortal eyes!”
John Conington
(1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 101
Jane Barker
(1652–1732) British writer
Book I
Exilius http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1715-exilius.html (1715)
“In youth alone, unhappy mortals live;
But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive:
Discolored sickness, anxious labor, come,
And age, and death's inexorable doom.”
Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus aevi
Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus
Et labor, et durae rapit inclementia mortis.
Book III, lines 66–68 (tr. John Dryden).
Georgics (29 BC)
2:1
Church Dogmatics (1932–1968)