Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
HOMERIf you serve too many masters, you’ll soon suffer.
More Homer Quotes
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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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Go on with a spirit that fears nothing.
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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
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My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius.
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We men are wretched things.
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Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions.
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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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Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.
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Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
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Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.
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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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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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For too much rest becomes a pain.
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No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
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Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
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