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Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun
Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays
Smote the surrounding fields.
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A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
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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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The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
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Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.
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Son of Atreus, what manner of speech has escaped the barrier of your teeth?
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Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round.
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Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.
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There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.
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By their own follies they perished, the fools.
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This is the way
the gods ordained the destiny of men,
to bear such burdens in our lives, while they
feel no affliction.
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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
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I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
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And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell,
In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.
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They strove to pile Ossa on Olympus, and on Ossa Pelion with its leafy forests, that they might scale the heavens.
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The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.
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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.
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In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
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She [Aphrodite] spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and in it desire and in it blandishing persuasion which steals the mind even of the wise.
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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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You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
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What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?
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Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.
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Always to be bravest and to be preeminent above others.
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Homer is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.
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Iliad
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