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“And gods in guise of strangers from afar in every form do roam our cities, marking the sin and righteousness of men.”

XVII. 485–487 (tr. G. H. Palmer).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“So now I meet my doom. Well let me die—
but not without struggle, not without glory, no,
in some great clash of arms that even men to come
will hear of down the years!”

Homér Iliad

XXII. 303 (tr. Robert Fagles); spoken by Hector.
Richmond Lattimore's translation:
: But now my death is upon me.
Let me at least not die without a struggle, inglorious,
but do some big thing first, that men to come shall know of it.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Always it is, that the hearts in the younger men are frivolous,
but when an elder man is among them, he looks behind him
and in front, so that all comes out far better for both sides.”

Homér Iliad

III. 108–110 (tr. Richmond Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Rosy-fingered Dawn.”

Homér Iliad

I. 477 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“On valour's side the odds of combat lie,
The brave live glorious, or lamented die;
The wretch who trembles in the field of fame,
Meets death, and worse than death, eternal shame.”

Homér Iliad

XV. 563–564 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.”

Homér

“Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide”

Homér

“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!”

Homér Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“Few sons, indeed, are like their fathers.
Generally they are worse; but just a few are better.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

II. 276–277 (tr. E. V. Rieu).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Source: The Odyssey

“No shame in running,
fleeing disaster, even in pitch darkness.
Better to flee from death than feel its grip.”

Homér Iliad

XIV. 80–81 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Richmond Lattimore's translation:
: There is no shame in running, even by night, from disaster.
The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Life is largely a matter of expectation.”

Homér

“And empty words are evil.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

“A physician is worth more than several other men put together, for he can cut out arrows and spread healing herbs.”

Homér Iliad

XI. 514–515 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

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

Homér Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember”