“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.”

— Homér , Iliad

Source: The Iliad

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Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

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