Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

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Better to flee from death than feel its grip.
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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: Book XIV. Book by Homer (p.216 - 217), 750 BC.
Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent … ▶
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform. ✨ Homer (1873). The Odyssey of Homer, p.57
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions. ✨ Homer (1871). The Iliad of Homer, p.231

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