More from Homer
Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.Iliad, Book IX, 312–313 (tr. Alexander Pope)- Iliad, Book XV, 496–497 (tr. Lord Derby)
Bird-signs!
Fight for your country—that is the best, the only omen!Iliad, Book XII, 243 (tr. Robert Fagles)
More about courage
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill
