My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius.
HOMERCome 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.
More Homer Quotes
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Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.
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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
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Everything looks bad if you remember it.
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Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
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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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Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.
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Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.
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I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
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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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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
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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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Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.
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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
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