There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
HOMERThe sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.
More Homer Quotes
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If you serve too many masters, you’ll soon suffer.
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Have patience, heart.
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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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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
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Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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Some things you will think of yourself, some things God will put into your mind.
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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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Everything looks bad if you remember it.
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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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For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.
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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
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Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.
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