Homer

 

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

“The glorious gifts which the gods themselves choose to lavish on a man are not to be despised; no man ever acquires them by his own efforts.”

  • From The Iliad (Book 3, approx. line 60) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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