Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born.
Iliad and Odyssey
Achilles' fatalistic view of death in The Iliad, suggesting human actions cannot escape predetermined destiny.
c. 8th century BCE
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