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A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
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Prayers are the daughters of mighty Zeus, lame and wrinkled and slanting-eyed.
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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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Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.
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By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
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Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.
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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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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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Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings—their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.
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Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.
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Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme.
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Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.
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Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.
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At length as the Morning Star was beginning to herald the light which saffron-mantled Dawn was soon to suffuse over the sea, the flames fell and the fire began to die.
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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
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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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And endless are the modes of speech, and far
Extends from side to side the field of words.
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And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
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Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
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O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.
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To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
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The rule
Of the many is not well. One must be chief
In war and one the king.
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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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Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.
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[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.
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