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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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It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
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I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, you too shall live but for a little season; death and the day of your doom are close upon you, and they will lay you low by the hand of Achilles son of Aiakos.
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Here on the monarch's speech Achilles broke
And furious thus, and interrupting, spoke.
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They tug, they sweat, but neither gain, nor yield
One foot, one inch of the contended field.
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By the ships there lies a dead man, unwept, unburied: Patroclus.
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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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Always to be bravest and to be preeminent above others.
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There she met sleep, the brother of death.
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It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
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The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
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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 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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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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The hearts of the noble may be turned [by entreaty].
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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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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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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
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If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
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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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