PLEASURE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 For my own part I should have no more pleasure in life, but had rather die at once.
2 Antinous," answered Telemachus, "I cannot eat in peace, nor take pleasure of any kind with such men as you are.
3 As for the suitors, let them take their pleasure indoors or out as they will, for they have nothing to fret about.
4 Nestor gave out the gold, and the smith gilded the horns of the heifer that the goddess might have pleasure in their beauty.
5 Mercury himself had endowed him with this gift, for he used to burn the thigh bones of goats and kids to him, so he took pleasure in his companionship.
6 The suitors then returned to their singing and dancing until the evening; but when night fell upon their pleasuring they went home to bed each in his own abode.
7 But while I was travelling and getting great riches among these people, my brother was secretly and shockingly murdered through the perfidy of his wicked wife, so that I have no pleasure in being lord of all this wealth.
8 Mother," answered Telemachus, "let the bard sing what he has a mind to; bards do not make the ills they sing of; it is Jove, not they, who makes them, and who sends weal or woe upon mankind according to his own good pleasure.
9 We too will sit here eating and drinking in the hut, and telling one another stories about our misfortunes; for when a man has suffered much, and been buffeted about in the world, he takes pleasure in recalling the memory of sorrows that have long gone by.