No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man’s hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
HOMERSleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death.
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Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.
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Too many kings can ruin an army.
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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.
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Few sons are like their fathers, most are worse, few better.
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It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
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Immortals are never alien to one another.
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Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this.
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There will be killing till the score is paid.
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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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It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
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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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What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?
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There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
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I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
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