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.
HOMERNo 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.
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Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.
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A small rock holds back a great wave.
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Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
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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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Modesty is of no use to a beggar.
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Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.
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You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
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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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What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?
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I didn’t lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!
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Some things you will think of yourself, some things God will put into your mind.
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No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
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We men are wretched things.
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
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