"A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities."
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"The single best augury is to fight for one's country."
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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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"Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor"
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"It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long."
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"If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift."
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"[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told."
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"On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus."
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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 help."
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"Do I know what rhetorical means?"
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"For never, never, wicked man was wise."
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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 perish."
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"I don't know how much longer I can complain."
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"Victory passes back and forth between men."
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"For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood."
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"Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it."
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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."
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"My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time."
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"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him."
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"Long exercised in woes."
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