Best Priam Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“So the immortals spun our lives that we, we wretched men live on to bear such torments - the gods live free of sorrows. -Achilles to Priam”

Achilles Trojan War Priam

Book:The Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.”

Children Heaven Wish Loses Gains Vices Submit Martyr Avarice Begets Keepers Mortification Priam

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”

Men Inspirational Firsts Dies Struggle Let Me Great Things Teenager Teens Hereafter Iliad Fate In The Iliad Rage From The Iliad Achilles Fate Priam

Book:The Iliad: An Epic Poem About the Trojan War, the Ten-Year Siege of the City of Troy (Ilium) by a Coalition of Greek States - Battles and Events During the Weeks of a Quarrel Between King Agamemnon and the Warrior Achilles (Beloved Books Edition)

Source: The Iliad: An Epic Poem About the Trojan War, the Ten-Year Siege of the City of Troy (Ilium) by a Coalition of Greek States - Battles and Events During the Weeks of a Quarrel Between King Agamemnon and the Warrior Achilles (Beloved Books Edition)

“There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.”

Men Earth Alive Breathe Iliad Fate In The Iliad Rage From The Iliad Achilles Fate Priam

Book:The Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?”

Years Light Able Dies Passion Fire Dust Ashes Achilles Women Beauty Hector Agamemnon Priam

Book:Name of the Rose

Source: Name of the Rose

“And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.”

Men Way Father House Memories Grief Feet Rose Killing Achilles Sobbing Iliad Patroclus Hector Priam

Author:Homer

“Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”