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But he, mighty man, lay mightily in the whirl of dust, forgetful of his horsemanship.
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Man, supposing you and I, escaping this battle,
would be able to live on forever, ageless, immortal,
so neither would I myself go on fighting in the foremost,
nor would I urge you into the fighting where men win glory.
But now, seeing that the spirits of death stand close about us
in their thousands, no man can turn aside or escape them,
let us go on and win glory for ourselves, or yield it to others.
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The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.
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He [Thersites] was the ugliest man who came to Ilium.
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They ran, one fleeing, and one pursuing. In front a good man fled, but one mightier far pursued him swiftly; for it was not for beast of sacrifice or for bull's hide that they strove, such as are men's prizes for swiftness of foot, but it was for the life of horse-taming Hector that they ran.
Achilles and Hector
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For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
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You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another the lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
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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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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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I would rather be tied to the soil as another man's serf, even a poor man's, who hadn't much to live on himself, than be King of all these the dead and destroyed.
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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
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Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?
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Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's cursed appetite.
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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.
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Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
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I have gone through what no other mortal on earth has gone through;
I put my lips to the hands of the man who has killed my children.
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He was a wealthy man, and kindly to his fellow men; for dwelling in a house by the side of the road, he used to entertain all comers.
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A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
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Surely there is nothing more wretched than a man, of all the things which breathe and move upon the earth.
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To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
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There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
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Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.
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Tell me, muse, of the man of many resources who wandered far and wide after he sacked the holy citadel of Troy, and he saw the cities and learned the thoughts of many men, and on the sea he suffered in his heart many woes.
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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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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
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