Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
HOMERLet me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
More Homer Quotes
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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The force of union conquers all.
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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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No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man’s hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind.
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Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
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What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?
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A small rock holds back a great wave.
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There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
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Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.
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I long for home, long for the sight of home.
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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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Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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Too many kings can ruin an army.
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Some things you will think of yourself, some things God will put into your mind.
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No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
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Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism.
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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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Noblest minds are easiest bent.
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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
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Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.
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Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
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There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.
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Immortals are never alien to one another.
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