Iliad Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

  Homer

  Death, Inches, Dies

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• If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

  Homer

  Thinking, Valiant, Ifs

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• Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

  Homer

  Men, Honor, Alive

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• Over the wine-dark sea.

  Homer

  Wine, Dark, Sea

  Homer (2004). “Iliad of Homer”, p.128, 1st World Publishing

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• I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

  Homer

  Heart, Men, Mind

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.402, University of Chicago Press

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• Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

  Homer

  Done, Fool, Harm

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• He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

  Matthew Arnold

  Book, Perfect, Speech

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• No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

  Homer

  Men, Brave, Coward

  Homer (2012). “The Iliad”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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

  Herodotus

  Kings, Rage From The Iliad, Good Things

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• Light is the task where many share the toil.

  Homer

  Teamwork, Light, Team Building

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• He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

  Homer

  Children, Long, Battle

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• Victory passes back and forth between men.

  Homer

  Men, Victory, Back And Forth

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.179, University of Chicago Press

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• I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

  Homer

  Lying, Winning, Dust

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• It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

  Homer

  Long, Lasts, Immortal

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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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• A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

  Homer

  Leadership, Sleep, Responsibility

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• Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

  Raymond Queneau

  Character, Historical Value, Fiction

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• Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

  Victor Hugo

  Flow, Three, Source

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12468, Delphi Classics

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• The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though.

  Robert Dessaix

  Use, Way, Odyssey

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever command men to fashion the first tools, first use fire, invent the telescope and the steam engine, or compose the Iliad. Cultural values do not arise by direction of higher authorities. They cannot be compelled by dictates nor called into life by the resolution of legislative assemblies.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Fashion, Men, Fire

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• The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."

  Joseph Campbell

  War, Two, Forever

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• No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Perfect, Stories

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• The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Book, Race, Length

  "Johannes Gutenberg printed playing cards the same year as his famous Bible (1440). The cards from Gutenberg's press were Tarot cards, from which the modern deck is derived. The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

  John Ruskin

  Writing, Law, Genius

  John Ruskin (1873). “The fall”, p.97

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