"Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen."
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"'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head."
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"Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause."
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"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"
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"We're goin bowling. If we don't come back, avenge our deaths."
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"Achilles absent was Achilles still!"
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"down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms"
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"A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator."
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"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!"
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"Light is the task where many share the toil."
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"The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others."
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"Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream!"
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"It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be."
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"The windy satisfaction of the tongue."
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"It is not right to exult over slain men."
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"Restrain yourself... and gloat in silence. I'll have no jubilation here. It is an impious thing to exult over the slain."
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"The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars."
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"The fates have given mankind a patient soul."
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"Better to flee from death than feel its grip."
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"How vain, without the merit, is the name."
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