Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you.
Iliad and Odyssey
The Iliad, spoken by Achilles to Lycaon
c. 8th Century BCE
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"Doesn't the son of Tydeus know, down deep, the man who fights the gods does not live long?"
Strange & Unusual"The gods can either give or take away."
Controversial"And bid your handmaids to do their work. But stories concern men, all men, but especially me, for mine is the power in the house."
Controversial"No mortal can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born."
Strange & Unusual"The gods are always with us."
Humorous