Quotes from The Iliad of Homer — Samuel Butler
1835–1902 England
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Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.
The Iliad of Homer (1898)
There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through.
The Iliad of Homer (1898)
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.
The Iliad of Homer (1898)