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"Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy."
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"It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave."
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"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."
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"I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another."
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"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war."
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"At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what"
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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"
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"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."
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"How God ever brings like to like."
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"In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men."
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"A companion's words of persuasion are effective."
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"A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibiliti"
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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 co"
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"A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wo"
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"Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly"
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"He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle"
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"Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any he"
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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."
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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 anot"
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"The single best augury is to fight for one's country."
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"The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council."
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"Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two"
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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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"Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two"
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"Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment."
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"Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race"
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"Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond th"
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"It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the p"
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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 a"
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"Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that"
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"The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and"
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"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."
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"May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for"
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"Evil deeds do not prosper the slow man catches up with the swift."
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"There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted"
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