“No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“We men are wretched things.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
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