Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
HOMERFew sons are like their fathers, most are worse, few better.
More Homer Quotes
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We men are wretched things.
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Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
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You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
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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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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this.
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Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
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The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
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Everything flows and nothing stays.
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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.
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Men are so quick to blame the gods.
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If you serve too many masters, you’ll soon suffer.
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