Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
Subject:
Grief
Source: The Odyssey
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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. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.
Subject:
War
Source: The Iliad
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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.
Subject:
Death
Source: The Iliad
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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.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
Source: The Iliad
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It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
Subject:
Patriotism
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Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
Subject:
Character
Etiquette
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You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
Subject:
Maturity
Source: The Odyssey
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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Subject:
Parents
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Light is the task where many share the toil.
Subject:
Unity
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A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
Subject:
Responsibility
Source: The Iliad
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There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.
Subject:
Unity
Source: The Iliad
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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
Subject:
Evil
Source: The Odyssey
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We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
Subject:
Anger
Source: The Odyssey
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I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
Subject:
Sincerity
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A small rock holds back a great wave.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
Source: The Odyssey
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The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
Subject:
War
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
Subject:
Honesty
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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
Subject:
Mankind
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By their own follies they perished, the fools.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
Source: The Odyssey
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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.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
Source: The Iliad
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