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What so tedious as a twice-told tale?
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Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure.
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Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.
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Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?
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Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
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And not a man appears to tell their fate.
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Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.
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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.
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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.
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Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.
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The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.
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If you're gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things.
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I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men
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It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.
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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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See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
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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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