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It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

Homer
Fate, Insightful, Hardship

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

Homer
Grief, Fate, Men

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Homer
Patience, Fate, Soul
Homer (1950). “The Iliad”, Signet

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

Homer
Grief, Fate, Men
Homer (2005). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.4, Bantam Classics

Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.

Homer
Fate, Men, Balance
Homer (1773). “The Iliad”, p.423, Hayes Barton Press

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

Homer
Fighting, Fate, Men
Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.224, University of Chicago Press

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

Homer
Fate, Toil, Woe
Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.254

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

Homer
Life, Pain, Fate
Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.31

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

Homer
Fate, Men
Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.236

Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born.

Homer
Dream, Fate, Men
Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.67, Delphi Classics

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