No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
HOMERNo man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
HOMERThere is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
HOMERMost grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.
HOMERI know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
HOMEREven his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
HOMERYoung men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
HOMERTrying is the first step toward failure.
HOMERWho love too much, hate in the like extreme.
HOMERMen grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
HOMERToo many kings can ruin an army.
HOMERThere will be killing till the score is paid.
HOMERTo speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
HOMERThere is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible – magic to make the sanest man go mad.
HOMERThe sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.
HOMERMen are so quick to blame the gods.
HOMERMany shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
HOMER