The Iliad (A Penguin Classics Hardcover) by Homer Quotes

“Hippolocus begat me. I claim to be his son, and he sent me to Troy with strict instructions: Ever to excel, to do better than others, and to bring glory to your forebears, who indeed were very great.... This is my ancestry; this is the blood I am proud to inherit.”
― Homer, Iliad

“¡Atrida! ¡Qué más quisiera yo que ser como cuando di muerte al divino Ereutalión, pero los dioses nunca conceden a los mortales todas las cosas a un tiempo, pues si era joven entonces, ahora la vejez me acosa! ¡Aún así me mezclaré con los jinetes y les exhortaré con consejos y con mandatos, ya que ése es privilegio de los viejos! ¡Que blandan las lanzas los jóvenes, que son más vigorosos que yo y tienen confianza en sus fuerzas!”
― Homer, Iliad

“my rage, my fury would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat you raw – such agonies you have caused me - achilles, killing hector”
― Homer, Iliad

“But as it is, death is everywhere
In more shapes than we can count,
And since no mortal is immune or can escape,
Let's go forward, either to give glory
To another man or get glory from him.”
― Homer, Iliad

“Why do you ask about my ancestry? The generations of men are like the growth and fall of leaves. The wind shakes some to earth. The forest sprouts new foliage, and springtime comes. So to, one human generation comes to be, another ends. (trans. Emily Wilson)”
― Homer, Iliad

“We men are wretched creatures and the gods have woven grief into our lives: but they themselves are free from care”
― Homer, The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer Revised Edition [Paperback(2003)]