| Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. |
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| Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. |
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| The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. |
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| It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. |
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- Homer |
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| The single best augury is to fight for one's country. |
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| Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them. |
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| All men have need of the gods. |
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| And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds. |
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| Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor. |
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| Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. |
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- Homer |
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| The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside. |
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- Homer |
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| The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. |
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| Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. |
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- Homer |
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| The fates have given mankind a patient soul. |
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| Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift. |
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