Iliad 9.318–320

Achilles to Odysseus during the embassy

ἴση μοῖρα μένοντι καὶ εἰ μάλα τις πολεμίζοι·

ἐν δὲ ἰῇ τιμῇ ἠμὲν κακὸς ἠδὲ καὶ ἐσθλός·

κάτθανʼ ὁμῶς ὅ τʼ ἀεργὸς ἀνὴρ ὅ τε πολλὰ ἐοργώς.

The same portion comes to the man who stays behind and the man who fights hard;

the coward and the brave are held in the same honor;

the idle man dies as surely as the man who has done much.

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