The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
HOMERNo 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 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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Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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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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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
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The journey is the thing.
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Trying is the first step toward failure.
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Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.
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Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.
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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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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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To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
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Light is the task where many share the toil.
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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
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Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
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