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“The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“His descent was like nightfall.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you— it’s born with us the day that we are born.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Hell hath no fury like a goddess scorned”
― Bernard Knox, The Iliad

“For of all creatures that breathe and creep about on the earth, there is none so miserable as man.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“القضاء ينبغي أن يتم، والقدر يجب أن يأخذ مجراه.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.”
― Homer, The Iliad of Homer

“And so the Trojans buried Hector, breaker of horses.”
― Homer, The Iliad