Reproach is infinite, and knows no endSo voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can failFor every man has equal strength to rail.
Homer
Wisdom never lies
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Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endureFor already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.
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But there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
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Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.
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Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on
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There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
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The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
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Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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Too many kings can ruin an army
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
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Im Frieden begraben die Söhne ihre Väter, im Krieg begraben Väter ihre Söhne.
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!
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