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“The reminiscences, far too numerous, on which he dwelt produced a disheartening effect on him; he went no further with the work, and his mental vacuity redoubled.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education: The History of a Young Man

“Human beings have short lives.330 If we are cruel, everyone will curse us during our life, and mock us when we die. The names of those who act with nobleness are brought by travelers across the world, and many people speak about their goodness.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Wrath—sing, goddess, of the ruinous wrath of Peleus’ son Achilles,”
― Homer, The Iliad

“So the other gods as well as chariot-fighting men slept through the night;”
― Homer, The Iliad

“2.​ILIÁDOS B So the other gods as well as chariot-fighting men slept through the night; but”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Now the gods were seated in assembly by Zeus”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Then when all the contingents were marshaled with their leaders the Trojans set out with ringing cries and clamor,”
― Homer, The Iliad

“5.​ILIÁDOS E”
― Homer, The Iliad

“6.​ILIÁDOS Z”
― Homer, The Iliad

“7.​ILIÁDOS H”
― Homer, The Iliad

“8.​ILIÁDOS Θ”
― Homer, The Iliad

“10.​ILIÁDOS K”
― Homer, The Iliad

“11.​ILIÁDOS Λ”
― Homer, The Iliad

“1.​ILIÁDOS”
― Homer, The Iliad

“the will of Zeus”
― Homer, The Iliad

“release to me my beloved daughter, take instead the ransom,​20 revering Zeus’ son who strikes from afar—Apollo.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Hear me, God of the silver bow, you who stand over Chryse and Killa most holy, you whose might rules Tenedos, God of Plague; if ever I roofed over a temple that pleased you, or if ever I burned as sacrifice to you the fatty thighbones​40 of bulls and of goats—grant me this wish: May the Danaans pay for my tears with your arrows.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Calchas the son of Thestor, far the most eminent of bird-seers,”
― Homer, The Iliad

“not even if you speak of Agamemnon”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Do not in this way, skilled though you be, godlike Achilles, try to trick me,”
― Homer, The Iliad

“never yet have they driven off my cattle, or my horses, nor ever in Phthia, where the rich earth breeds warriors have they destroyed my harvest,”
― Homer, The Iliad

“and beseeched all the Achaeans”
― Homer, The Iliad

“And he, Achilles, will rouse his companion Patroclus, whom shining Hector with his spear will kill in front of Ilion, after Patroclus has destroyed a multitude of other young men, among them my own son, godlike Sarpedon; and enraged at Patroclus dying, godlike Achilles will kill Hector. And from that point, then, without respite, I will effect a retreat from the ships, all the way until that time the Achaeans​70 capture steep Ilion through the designs of Athena.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“for which I suffered much hardship, which the sons of the Achaeans gave me!”
― Homer, The Iliad

“too have passed many sleepless nights, and come through many blood-soaked days of fighting, doing battle with men who fight for their own wives. Twelve cities of men I have sacked from my ships, and eleven, I say, on foot throughout Troy’s rich-soiled land; and from all these I carried off as spoil many treasures, valuable treasures,​330 and would take and give them all to Agamemnon the son of Atreus; and he hanging back beside his swift ships accepted them, and would distribute little, and hold on to much.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“dog-face,”
― Homer, The Iliad

“for a dream, too, is from Zeus,”
― Homer, The Iliad

“For you, I’d do even more,’ she whispered, overcome with happiness at the praise.”
― Władysław Stanisław Reymont, The Peasants