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I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better.
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Como os portões do Hades me é odioso aquele homem que esconde uma coisa na mente, mas diz outra.
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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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down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they wentand past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and pastthe Land of Dreams, and soon they reached the fields of asphodelwhere the dead, the burnt-out wraiths of mortals make their home
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For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.
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And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself—more birds than women flocking round his body!
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And overpowered by memoryBoth men gave way to grief. Priam wept freelyFor man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouchingBefore Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself,Now for his father, now for Patroclus once againAnd their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.
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When Achilles heard this he sank into the black depths of despair. He picked up the dark dust in both his hands and poured it on his head...he cast himself down on the earth and lay there like a fallen giant, fouling his hair and tearing it out with his own hands...[the maidservants] beat their breasts with their hands and sank to the ground beside their royal master.
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Prophet of evil,' he cried, 'never have you said a word to my advantage. It is always trouble that you revel in foretelling.
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