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- If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- 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.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- 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.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
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