Quote #5

Victory passes back and forth between men.

More from Homer

  1. So they spoke, and both springing down from behind their horses gripped each other's hands and exchanged the promise of friendship; but Zeu…
  2. Man, supposing you and I, escaping this battle, would be able to live on forever, ageless, immortal, so neither would I myself go on fighti…
  3. Among all creatures that breathe on earth and crawl on it there is not anywhere a thing more dismal than man is.
  4. As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leave…
  5. I have gone through what no other mortal on earth has gone through; I put my lips to the hands of the man who has killed my children.
  6. Then looking at him darkly resourceful Odysseus spoke to him: 'What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?'
  7. And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once.
  8. The will of Zeus was accomplished.

All Homer quotes