Athens

“What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.”
― Homer, The Iliad

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

“Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable”
― Homer, The Iliad