A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
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At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain, Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain: Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel; Achilles absent was Achilles still: Yet a short space the great avenger stayed, Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid.
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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
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But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
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Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
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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.
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How vain, without the merit, is the name.
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It is not good to have a rule of many.
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Light is the task where many share the toil.
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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Homer (~700 BC), The Odyssey
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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
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Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood,The source of evil one, and one of good; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills,Blessings to these, to those distributes ills;To most he mingles both.
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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
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