Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
HOMERMany shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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Noblest minds are easiest bent.
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I guess some people never change. Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.
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Too many kings can ruin an army.
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A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.
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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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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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Men are so quick to blame the gods.
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You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
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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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No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
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Few sons are like their fathers, most are worse, few better.
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My every impulse bends to what is right.
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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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My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius.
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Each man delights in the work that suits him best.
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