Plato
- Republic
And if someone approaches a young man in that condition and gently tells him the truth, namely, that there is no understanding in him, that he needs it, and that it cannot be acquired unless he works like a slave to attain it, do you think that it will be easy for him to listen?
Homer
- Iliad
For my mother Thetis the goddess of the silver feet tells me I carry two sorts of destiny toward the day of my death. Either, if I stay here and fight beside the city of the Trojans, my return home is gone, but my glory shall be everlasting; but if I return home to the beloved land of my fathers, the excellence of my glory is gone, but there will be a long life left for me, and my end in death will not come quickly to me.
Homer
- Iliad
And this shall be a great oath before you: some day longing for Achilleus will come to the sons of the Achaians, all of them. Then stricken at heart though you be, you will be able to do nothing, when in their numbers before man-slaughtering Hecktor they drop and die. And then you will eat out your heart within you in sorrow, that you did no honor to the best of the Achaians.
