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    Homer
    “Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
    ― Homer, The Odyssey
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Homer
    “For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother”
    ― Homer, The Odyssey
    tags: friends
    502 likes

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  • #3
    Homer
    “Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
    that we devise their misery. But they
    themselves- in their depravity- design
    grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
    ― Homer, The Odyssey
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  • #4
    Homer
    “…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: classics, greece, longing, love, lovers
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  • #5
    Homer
    “Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: heart, homer, the-iliad
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  • #6
    Homer
    “Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    548 likes

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  • #7
    Sappho
    “someone will remember us
    I say
    even in another time”
    ― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
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  • #8
    Sappho
    “you burn me”
    ― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
    156 likes

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  • #9
    Sappho
    “may you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend”
    ― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
    84 likes

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  • #10
    Sophocles
    “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: change, character, course, crime, failure, mistakes, pride, yield
    1244 likes

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  • #11
    Sophocles
    “Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: family, love
    481 likes

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  • #12
    Sophocles
    “I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: love
    231 likes

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  • #13
    Sophocles
    “Tomorrow is tomorrow.
    Future cares have future cures,
    And we must mind today.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: living-in-the-present
    205 likes

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  • #14
    Euripides
    “Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
    ― Euripides, Medea
    tags: hate, incurable, love, retaliation, revenge, wounds
    711 likes

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  • #15
    Euripides
    “Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour”
    ― Euripides, Medea
    tags: hate, tragedy
    307 likes

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  • #16
    Euripides
    “My love for you
    was greater than my wisdom.”
    ― Euripides, Medea
    tags: love, medea, wisdom
    115 likes

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  • #17
    Sophocles
    “To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
    tags: friendship
    357 likes

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  • #18
    Sophocles
    “How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
    When there’s no help in truth.”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
    tags: oedipus-rex
    172 likes

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  • #19
    Sophocles
    “Oblivion - what a blessing...for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
    79 likes

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  • #20
    Sophocles
    “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
    106 likes

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  • #21
    Sophocles
    “Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
    tags: interference, meddlers
    51 likes

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  • #22
    Sophocles
    “To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
    tags: brief, classic-insult, communication, concise, humor, insult, word-choice, writing
    32 likes

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  • #23
    Lao Tzu
    “Knowing others is intelligence;
    knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength;
    mastering yourself is true power.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: wisdom
    5132 likes

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  • #24
    Lao Tzu
    “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, integrity, self-reliance, self-respect
    3209 likes

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  • #25
    Lao Tzu
    “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: courage, death, inspirational, life, moral-courage, real-life
    1872 likes

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  • #26
    Harper Lee
    “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, people, scout
    3682 likes

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  • #27
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127192 likes

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  • #28
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
    36843 likes

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  • #29
    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
    33862 likes

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  • #30
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    11155 likes



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