Praise is to criticize as flatter is to insult or offend. To offend the person or group.
Based on this excerpt, it is reasonable to conclude that neither twin could die because they were immortal gods. The excerpt tells us that none of brothers died, and also it points out that they are the creators that once stepped on separate paths. They are still alive, but not in the sense that we are used to think. Each one has its duty and now they both look at the world from different sides.
The first one is correct. "It is like" the best decision you can ever make.
Saying it that way, is the same as saying that it would be the best decision that you can ever make, but adding more to it. Almost as if soeaking to someone who is overdramatic, and constantly say the word like.
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In the next two lines, that seems to refer to the statement above about the second path being grassier and less worn. Now the speaker suggests that the second path was equally, not less, worn: “the passing there / Had worn them about the same.” This seems to say that the two paths had had a similar number of people walking on them, so they were fairly equally worn.
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