Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
HOMERMen grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
More Homer Quotes
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A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.
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We men are wretched things.
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Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death.
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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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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
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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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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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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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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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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.
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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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Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
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Everything flows and nothing stays.
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Have patience, heart.
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