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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
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She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.
Homer
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Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.
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I want answers now or I want them eventually!
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Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
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Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.
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What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose.
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The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
Homer
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We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
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Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream!
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Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
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Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.
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Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide.
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Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
Homer
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One rogue leads another.
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You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.
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Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.
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A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
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Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
Homer
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The whims of youth break all the rules.
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Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.
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It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.
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A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
Homer