Source: The Iliad
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Source: The Iliad
Source: The Iliad
Source: The Iliad
“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.”
Source: Iliad
Source: The Iliad
Source: The Iliad
“Im Frieden begraben die Söhne ihre Väter, im Krieg begraben Väter ihre Söhne.”
“To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.”
Source: Translation of the Iliad of Homer
“Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.”
“The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.”
“The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!”
Source: The Iliad: the story of Achilles
Source: The Iliad
“Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.”
Source: The Iliad
Source: The illustrated Odyssey
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)
“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.”
“The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.”
Source: Translation of the Iliad of Homer