“There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.
Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on”
― The Iliad
Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on”
― The Iliad
“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. 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.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
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