Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
HOMERIt behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
More Homer Quotes
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Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death.
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In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
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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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Any moment might be our last.
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There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
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Men are so quick to blame the gods.
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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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Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
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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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Few sons are like their fathers, most are worse, few better.
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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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What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?
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Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
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There will be killing till the score is paid.
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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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