"A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly."
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"Noblest minds are easiest bent."
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"Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use."
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"I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead."
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"Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile"
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"So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never faltering, filled with winning self-control, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him like a god when he walks through the streets. Another man may look like a deathless one on high but there's not a bit of grace to crown his words. Just like you, my fine, handsome friend."
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"Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away."
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"Over the wine-dark sea."
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"Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall"
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"Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them."
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"One who contends with immortals lives a very short life."
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"Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure."
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"I live an idle burden to the ground."
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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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"Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow."
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"Wise to resolve, and patient to perform."
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"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair."
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"Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods."
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"It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise."
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"...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance."
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