You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
HOMERMen are so quick to blame the gods.
More Homer Quotes
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Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
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There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible – magic to make the sanest man go mad.
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Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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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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To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
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A small rock holds back a great wave.
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Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.
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Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.
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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
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There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
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Modesty is of no use to a beggar.
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My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius.
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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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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
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Have patience, heart.
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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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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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To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
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The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.
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It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
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Everything looks bad if you remember it.
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I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other’s arms.
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Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
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