Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
HOMERHateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
More Homer Quotes
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Immortals are never alien to one another.
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It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
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We men are wretched things.
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The proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him.
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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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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
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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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For too much rest becomes a pain.
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What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?
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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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To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
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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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The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
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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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Modesty is of no use to a beggar.
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