What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?
HOMEREach man delights in the work that suits him best.
More Homer Quotes
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Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
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Choose well.
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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
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A small rock holds back a great wave.
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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
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No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
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Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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Modesty is of no use to a beggar.
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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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I long for home, long for the sight of home.
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Death submits to no one.
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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind.
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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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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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