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Homer Quotes

"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."

"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

"Light is the task where many share the toil."

"At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain, Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain: Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel; Achilles absent was Achilles still: Yet a short space the great avenger stayed, Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid."

"It is not good to have a rule of many."

"Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood,The source of evil one, and one of good; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills,Blessings to these, to those distributes ills;To most he mingles both."

"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."

"Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing."

"How vain, without the merit, is the name."

"And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared."

"But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions."

"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe."

"Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause."

"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."

"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another."

"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."

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