He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
HOMERGoddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.
More Homer Quotes
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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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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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My every impulse bends to what is right.
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Death submits to no one.
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There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
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Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this.
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The force of union conquers all.
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My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius.
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I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another.
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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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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
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Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death.
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Immortals are never alien to one another.
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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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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind.
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