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The young fool might have known his prayers were doomed to fail. Achilles was not kind or tender-hearted, but a man of fierce passions
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You are indeed a man of sorrows and have suffered much...pray be seated now, here on this chair, and let us leave our sorrows, bitter though they are, locked up in our own hearts, for weeping is cold comfort and does little good.
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But when he spoke, that great voice of his poured out of his chest in words like the snowflakes of winter, and then no other mortal could in debate contend with Odysseus. Nor did we care any longer how he looked.
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Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!
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Reproach is infinite, and knows no endSo voluble a weapon is the tongue;Wounded, we wound; and neither side can failFor every man has equal strength to rail.
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Now they made all secure in the fast black ship,and, setting out the wine bowls all a-brim,they made libation to the gods, the undying, the ever-new,most of all to the grey-eyed daughter of Zeus.And the prow sheared through the night into the dawn.(Translation by Robert Fitzgerald 1961)
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the blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun and the Sungod blotted out the day of their return.
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I respect and reverence you, dear father-in-law, I wish I had chosen death rather than following your son, leaving behind my bridal chamber, my beloved daughter, my dear childhood friends and my kin. But I did not, and I pine away in sorrow.
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