The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.
HOMERWine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
More Homer Quotes
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A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.
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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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Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
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Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this.
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Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
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Trying is the first step toward failure.
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Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
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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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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions.
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My every impulse bends to what is right.
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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
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Few sons are like their fathers, most are worse, few better.
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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
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Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.
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