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For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
Category: Adversity Author: Homer Source: Odyssey
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
Category: Adversity Author: Homer Source: Iliad
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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Homer
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Nothing is more miserable than man,
Of all upon the earth that breathes and creeps.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Homer Source: Iliad
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Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.
Category: Death Author: Homer Source: Iliad
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And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
Category: Death Author: Homer Source: Iliad
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As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
Category: Generations Author: Homer Source: Iliad
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A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.
Category: Hmmm Author: Homer
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Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man,
Of all things breathing and moving.
Category: Humankind Author: Homer Source: Odyssey
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