Quote by Plato

“Homer never wondered whether, after their many hand-to-hand struggles, Achilles or Ajax still had all their teeth.”

— Milan Kundera

“He was too damned innocent. Homer wished he could keep Tad at this point, bonsai him to never grow up, to never have to…

— Douglas Clegg

“But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During…

— Roman Payne

“It would be restful to serve, if only as a slave, people who saw clearly, coldly, straight, not obliquely and with hypocrisy only, such…

— Ford Madox Ford

“I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes--epic on epic, Iliad on Iliad, and you always brothers…

— G. K. Chesterton

“With Cosette’s garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would call him…

— Victor Hugo

“It is an interesting, though idle, speculation, what would be the effect on us if all our reformers, revolutionaries, planners, politicians, and life-arrangers in…

— H.D.F. Kitto

“There are no heroes, just those that choose to be servants.”

— Ricky Maye

“Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a…

— Epictetus Epictetus

Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or…

— Plutarch

“That a poor man has no choice but to make the best of what he finds or is given.”

— Megan Derr