What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?
HOMERTo speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
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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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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind.
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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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A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.
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My every impulse bends to what is right.
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Each man delights in the work that suits him best.
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Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.
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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
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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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It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
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Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
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Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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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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Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
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