Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
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More Homer Quotes
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What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?
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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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If you serve too many masters, you’ll soon suffer.
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Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.
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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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The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
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The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.
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The proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him.
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Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
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Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
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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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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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Men are so quick to blame the gods.
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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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