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For never, never, wicked man was wise.
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Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day.
Homer
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Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.
Homer -
Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.
Homer -
I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.
Homer -
Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.
Homer -
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Homer -
Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.
Homer
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If you're gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things.
Homer -
It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.
Homer -
Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.
Homer -
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
Homer -
And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
Homer -
Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable.
Homer
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The journey is its own reward.
Homer -
We live in a society of laws.
Homer -
Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.
Homer -
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
Homer -
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Homer -
The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
Homer
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Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
Homer -
Over the wine-dark sea.
Homer -
And not a man appears to tell their fate.
Homer -
Nobody gets into heaven without a glowstick.
Homer