Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
HOMERA small rock holds back a great wave.
More Homer Quotes
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I long for home, long for the sight of home.
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Men are so quick to blame the gods.
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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.
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Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.
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Trying is the first step toward failure.
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There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.
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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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The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.
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There will be killing till the score is paid.
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Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism.
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The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.
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There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
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No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
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Choose well.
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Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.
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My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius.
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A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.
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The melancholy joys of evils pass’d, For he who much has suffer’d, much will know.
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There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
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Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions.
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To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don’t have to do squat!
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The journey is the thing.
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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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Everything flows and nothing stays.
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Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
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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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