Iliad 6.488–489
Hector to Andromache at the Scaean Gate
μοῖραν δʼ οὔ τινά φημι πεφυγμένον ἔμμεναι ἀνδρῶν,
οὐ κακὸν οὐδὲ μὲν ἐσθλόν, ἐπὴν τὰ πρῶτα γένηται.
and no man, I tell you, has ever escaped his portion,
coward or brave, once he has been born.
Hector to Andromache at the Scaean Gate
μοῖραν δʼ οὔ τινά φημι πεφυγμένον ἔμμεναι ἀνδρῶν,
οὐ κακὸν οὐδὲ μὲν ἐσθλόν, ἐπὴν τὰ πρῶτα γένηται.
and no man, I tell you, has ever escaped his portion,
coward or brave, once he has been born.