Birth Quote by Propertius “Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade” — Propertius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Birth Greater Iliad Inspirational Spring
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born. — Propertius Copy Share Image
“No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is by virtue… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad of the… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“What mostly happens in the Iliad is that Achilles has a hissy fit because Agamemnon has stolen a slave girl of his, sulks in… — Caroline Taggart Copy Share Image
I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin.… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional epic, and at the very moment of its hero's greatest military triumph, Homer diverts his focus from Achilles to the epic's two most important casualties, Patroklos and Hektor: it is to the consequences of their deaths,… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share
If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt. — Propertius Copy Share Image
Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born. — Propertius Copy Share Image
Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all. — Propertius Copy Share Image
A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away. — Propertius Copy Share Image
Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress. — Propertius Copy Share Image
You, O money, are the cause of a restless life! Because of you we journey toward a premature death; you provide cruel nourishment for… — Propertius Copy Share Image
Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among… — Propertius Copy Share Image
Love presses my head with carefully placed feet, wretch that he is, until he has taught me to detest chaste girls, and to live… — Propertius Copy Share Image
“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of… — Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974 Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with… — Francine Rivers Copy Share
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for… — Roxanne Shante Copy Share Image
