Quote of Homer - As is the generation of leaves...
Biography - Homer:
Legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Period:
8th century BC
Place of birth: Turkey
Period:
8th century BC
Place of birth: Turkey
As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
Translation
(French)
See also...
Quotes for: wind
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Since I grew tired of the chase
And search, I learned to find;
And since the wind blows in my face,
I sail with every wind.
And search, I learned to find;
And since the wind blows in my face,
I sail with every wind.
Quotes for: spring
If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? What will he do with the leisure that the machine will give him?
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Quotes for: generation
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.
Nations do not grow old in the same way that men do. Each generation born within the nation is like a new people.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
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