Fate In The Iliad Quotes

• Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

  Homer

  Son, Rage From The Iliad, Achilles

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• Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Teenager, Struggle

  Homer (2013). “The Iliad: An Epic Poem About the Trojan War, the Ten-Year Siege of the City of Troy (Ilium) by a Coalition of Greek States - Battles and Events During the Weeks of a Quarrel Between King Agamemnon and the Warrior Achilles (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.316, Lulu Press, Inc

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• ¿Por qué tanto dolor por mí? Ningún hombre me arrojará a la Muerte, contra mi destino. ¿Y el destino? Nadie vivo ha escapado de él, ni valiente ni cobarde, te lo digo yo: nace con nosotros el día en que nacemos.

  Homer

  Grief, Fate, Men

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  Todo es más hermoso porque estamos condenados. Nunca serás más hermosa de lo que eres ahora. Nunca volveremos a estar aquí.

  Homer

  Beautiful, Rage From The Iliad, Chaos

  "Troya". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

  Homer

  Fighting, Fate, Men

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.224, University of Chicago Press

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• Ningún hombre o mujer nacido, cobarde o valiente, puede rehuir su destino.

  Homer

  Destiny, Men, Brave

  Homero (1901). "La Ilíada de Homero", p.207

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• Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.

  Homer

  Grief, Heart, Giving

  Homer, Stanley Lombardo (1819). “Iliad”, p.443, Hackett Publishing

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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.

  Homer

  Men, Mad, Magic

  "Iliad: Book XIV". Book by Homer (p.216 - 217), 750 BC.

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• 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.

  Stefan Zweig

  Fate, Men, Brave

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• 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

  Spring, Men, Wind

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• Sin una señal, su espada desenvaina el valiente, y no pide presagio, sino la causa de su país.

  Homer

  País, Hombres, Valentía

  Homero (2013). "Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)", p.669, Delphi Classics.

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• There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

  Homer

  Men, Alive, Earth

  Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

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• All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.

  Homer

  Daughter, Eye, Men

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.262, Xist Publishing

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• Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

  Homer

  Father, Thinking, Compassion

  Homer (2013). “The Iliad: An Epic Poem About the Trojan War, the Ten-Year Siege of the City of Troy (Ilium) by a Coalition of Greek States - Battles and Events During the Weeks of a Quarrel Between King Agamemnon and the Warrior Achilles (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.353, Lulu Press, Inc

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• …but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

  Homer

  Wife, Rage From The Iliad, Fields

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• Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.

  Homer

  Mother, Strong, Powerful

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• It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

  Homer

  Lying, Men, Civilization

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• 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.

  Homer

  Daughter, Men, Feet

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• Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

  Homer

  Eye, Rage From The Iliad, Goddess

  Homer (1996). “Homer in English”, Penguin Group USA

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• A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

  Heródoto

  Kings, Rage From The Iliad, Good Things

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• You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!

  Homer

  Running, War, Heart

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• Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.

  Homer

  Niña, Madre, Correr

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• Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

  Homer

  Men, Rage From The Iliad, Sacred

  HOMER (1961). “THE ODYSSEY”

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• And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!

  Homer

  Grief, Son, Blood

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• Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.

  Homer

  Kings, Hate, Men

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