What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?
HOMERI detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another.
More Homer Quotes
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I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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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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Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.
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Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.
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Trying is the first step toward failure.
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Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
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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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Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death.
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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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There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
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Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this.
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For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.
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