It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
HOMERIt behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
HOMERYou ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
HOMERThe sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.
HOMERThere is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.
HOMERYet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.
HOMERYoung men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
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.
HOMERThe stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.
HOMERNoblest minds are easiest bent.
HOMERHateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
HOMEREven his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
HOMERThere will be killing till the score is paid.
HOMERIn youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
HOMERThere is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
HOMERFor a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.
HOMERFew sons are like their fathers, most are worse, few better.
HOMER