Jove Weighs Affairs Of Earth In Dubious Scales, And The Good Suffers While The Bad Prevails.

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book vi, Line 247...
Mirror of constant faith, rever'd and mourn'd!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book iv, Line 229...
A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book vi, Line 22...
And would'st thou evil for his good repay?
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xvi, Line 448...
Earth sounds my wisdom and high heaven my fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book ix, Line 20...
Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood,-- The source of evil one, and one of good.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxiv, Line 663...
Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxii, Line 271...
T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xx, Line 290...
And not a man appears to tell their fate.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 308...