Homer
Poet
"Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches."
Iliad quotes
Iliad
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Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name."
Homer
Poet
"He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before."
Homer
Poet
"It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive."
Homer
Poet
"It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long."
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"If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift."
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"Victory passes back and forth between men."
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"Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it."
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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."
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"The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry"
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