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• These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.

  Homer

  Drinking, Heart, Sleep

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• It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!

  Homer

  Tree, Jerk, Standing There

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

  Homer

  Discovery, Done, Deeds

  Homer (1809). “The Iliad of Homer”

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• For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.

  Homer

  Adventure, Two, Resolution

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.260

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• Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.

  Homer

  Waste, Flocks, Left Behind

  Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.66, Delphi Classics

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• Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.

  Homer

  Mind, Lord, Righteous

  Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.66, Delphi Classics

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• Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

  Homer

  Shame, Poor, Comrade

  Homer (1877). “The Odyssey”, p.118

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• Victory passes back and forth between men.

  Homer

  Men, Victory, Iliad

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.179, University of Chicago Press

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• The hearts of great men can be changed.

  Homer

  Heart, Men, Great Men

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• And not a man appears to tell their fate.

  Homer

  Fate, Men

  Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.236

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• A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
  Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
  One should our interests and our passions be,
  My friend must hate the man that injures me.

  Homer

  Friendship, Hate, Passion

  Homer (1813). “The Iliad”, p.220

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• The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

  Homer

  Country, Fighting, Patriotism

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• Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.

  Homer

  Spirit, Courtesy, Gentle

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• A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

  Homer

  Persuasion, Companion

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• It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

  Homer

  Long, Lasts, Iliad

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• There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

  Homer

  Sleep, And Love, Fullness

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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.

  Homer

  Home, Men, Departed

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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 present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

  Homer

  Wish, Doe, Guests

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• It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

  Homer

  Tales, Tedious

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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 he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

  Homer

  Father, Believe, Moving

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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 and the dread fray.

  Homer

  Children, Long, Battle

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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 the righteousness of men.

  Homer

  Men, Cities, Kind

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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 when she contrived her husband's murder.

  Homer

  Husband, Heart, Deeds

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• It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing.

  Homer

  Sorrow

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• Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

  Homer

  Eye, Silence, Speech

  Homer, Alexander Pope (1809). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.1072

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