The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.
HOMERWhat are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?
More Homer Quotes
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
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In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
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Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.
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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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Everything looks bad if you remember it.
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My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius.
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Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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A small rock holds back a great wave.
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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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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
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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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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.
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