Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.
HOMERNo man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
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I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another.
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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Immortals are never alien to one another.
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Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
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A small rock holds back a great wave.
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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius.
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We men are wretched things.
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
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What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?
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No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
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Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
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Men are so quick to blame the gods.
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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind.
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To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.
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Go on with a spirit that fears nothing.
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Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.
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It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
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Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
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Empty words are evil.
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The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
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