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Quotations by Subject: Love (162 quotes)

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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.: Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.: Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
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Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.: Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
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