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Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

Homer
Death, Iliad, Inches

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

Homer
Death, Men, Eulogy
Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.281

Death submits to no one.

Homer
Death, Submit

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

Homer
Death, Feels

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

Homer
Death, Suicide, Men

That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.

Homer
Death, Song, Men
Homer (1996). “The Odyssey”, Viking Press

A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

Homer
Death, Men, Rage From The Iliad
Homer, Derek Jacobi (2006). “The Iliad”, Highbridge Co

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