What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?
HOMERThink not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
More Homer Quotes
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We men are wretched things.
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Modesty is of no use to a beggar.
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Immortals are never alien to one another.
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Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death.
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It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.
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Go on with a spirit that fears nothing.
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If you serve too many masters, you’ll soon suffer.
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In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.
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Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
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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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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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No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
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The journey is its own reward.
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Men are so quick to blame the gods.
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