Homer - Iliad

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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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It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

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Great Priam entered in, and coming close to Achilles, clasped in his hands his knees, and kissed his hands, the terrible, man-slaying hands that had slain his many sons.

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I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

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Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.

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By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

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Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

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As the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyelids for me as I lay dying into Hades.

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Prayers are the daughters of mighty Zeus, lame and wrinkled and slanting-eyed.

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A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

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Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

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If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

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All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.

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There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

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The hearts of the noble may be turned [by entreaty].

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Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

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It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.

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So they spoke, and both springing down from behind their horses
gripped each other's hands and exchanged the promise of friendship;
but Zeus the son of Kronos stole away the wits of Glaukos
who exchanged with Diomedes the son of Tydeus armour
of gold for bronze, for nine oxen's worth the worth of a hundred.

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It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

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The force of keen reproaches let him feel,
but sheath, obedient, thy revenging steel.

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The Olympian is a difficult foe to oppose.

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Remembering this, he wept bitterly, lying now on his side, now on his back, now on his face.

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But night is already at hand; it is well to yield to the night.

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I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

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Achilles' cursed anger sing, O goddess, that son of Peleus, which started a myriad sufferings for the Achaeans.

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Thus at full ease, in heaps of riches rolled,
What grieves the monarch?

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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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There she met sleep, the brother of death.

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No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

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