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I long for home, long for the sight of home.
HomerHomer If you serve too many masters, you’ll soon suffer.
HomerHomer Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
HomerHomer Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
HomerHomer 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.
HomerHomer Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
HomerHomer I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another.
HomerHomer 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.
HomerHomer The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.
HomerHomer Any moment might be our last.
HomerHomer Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.
HomerHomer There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
HomerHomer I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
HomerHomer A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.
HomerHomer My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius.
HomerHomer Immortals are never alien to one another.
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