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"Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles."
"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another."
"And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared."
"I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country."
"Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea. Few men can keep alive through a big serf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever."
"There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad."
"Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year."
"Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!"
"out of sight,out of mind"
"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
"Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender."
"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."
"Even a fool learns something once it hits him."
"Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other."
"Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut?"
"Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms."
"Being popular is the most important thing in the world!"
"In saffron-colored mantle from the tides Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light TO gods and men."
"I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch."
"To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."