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One who journeying
Along a way he knows not, having crossed
A place of drear extent, before him sees
A river rushing swiftly toward the deep,
And all its tossing current white with foam,
And stops and turns, and measures back his way.

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There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.

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Think not to match yourself against gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

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Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

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There is the heat of Love,
the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper,
irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

Iliad (-750)

A glorious death is his
Who for his country falls.

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