The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.
HOMERThe stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.
More Homer Quotes
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There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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The proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him.
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Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
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Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
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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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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
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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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We men are wretched things.
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Too many kings can ruin an army.
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For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.
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The melancholy joys of evils pass’d, For he who much has suffer’d, much will know.
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Death submits to no one.
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The journey is the thing.
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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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