Homer Quotes about Fighting

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It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

Homer

Fighting, Iliad, Strive

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

Homer

Peace, War, Fighting

Homer, W. C. Armstrong (1851). “Translation of the Iliad of Homer”, p.267

Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!

Homer

Fighting, Men, Fire

Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.452, Penguin

Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power

Homer

Fighting, Total War

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

Homer

Fighting, Fate, Men

Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.224, University of Chicago Press

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

Homer

Country, Fighting, Men

One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country.

Homer

Country, Fighting, Defense

Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.

Homer

Fighting, Men, Blood

Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.

Homer

Fighting, Men, Limits

Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.

Homer

Fighting, Swings, Skills