"They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize."
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"Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die."
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"A small rock holds back a great wave."
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"I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!"
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"Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly."
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"Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide"
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"Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket"
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"A glorious death is his, who for his country falls."
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"And would'st thou evil for his good repay?"
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"Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'"
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"Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame."
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"Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!"
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"I'm a rageaholic. I just can't live without rageahol."
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"Without TV, it's hard to know when one day ends and another begins."
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"The whims of youth break all the rules."
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"One man is a splendid fighter -- a god has made him so -- one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man's chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure."
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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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"The sex is ever to a soldier kind."
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"Steel itself oft lures a man to fight."
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"...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep."
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