306 Quotes About Epic

Once we have total power, what's to keep us from becoming villains ourselves?

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning-point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly, it did not seem of any use at the moment.

Hektor, argue me no agreements. I cannot forgive you.As there are no trustworthy oaths between men and lions,nor wolves and lambs have spirit that can be brought to agreementbut forever these hold feelings of hate for each other,so there can be no love between you and me, nor shall there beoaths between us, but one or the other must fall before thento glut with his blood Ares the god who fights under the shield's guard.

I am five, I will never understandwhy we are stranded in our selvesbut in this moment I knowmy own storyis understanding our singlenessthat I am destined to move my body and timeinto the body-timethe storyof Others.

the death cannot die

τὰ κάλλη γὰρ καὶ τοὺς λῃστὰς ἡμέρους ἐκποιοῦσι,καὶ πολεμίους φείδεσθαι νεότητος καὶ κάλλους. (I:326-327)

Summer queens are fine and fair, with pretty ribbons and flowers in their hair. Winter queens are cold and hard, with frosted crowns made of icy shards.

Uncrustables are man's greatest delicacy.