Quotes About Loyalty

They might permit a king to burn their fields or rape their daughters, as long as payment was made. But you did not touch a man's sons.

Ve con cuidado mañana, eres el mejor de los hombres, el mejor de los mirmidones.

Yes. But it is not his fault. I forgot to say I wished him for a companion." Therapon was the word he used. A brother-in-arms sworn to a prince by blood oaths and love. In war, these men were his honor guard; in peace, his closest advisers.

he would sail to troy and i would follow him, even into death

Briséis, lui répondis-je. S'il meurt, je le suivrai de près.

But there was a line of rallied Greeks behind me screaming my name. His name. I did not stop.

Aprendí a dormir de día con el fin de no estar cansado a su regreso, pues Aquiles siempre necesitaba hablar y contarme hasta el último detalle de los semblantes, las heridas y los movimientos de los hombres. Y yo deseaba ser capaz de escuchar para asimilar las sangrientas imágenes y pintarlas luego vulgares y corrientes en el vaso de la posteridad, y para liberarle de ellas y conseguir que volviera a ser Aquiles.

We will be back soon, Achilles said, again.

They might permit a king to burn their fields or rape their daughters, as long as payment was made. But you did not touch a man's sons. For this, the nobles would riot. We all knew the rules; we clung to them to avoid the anarchy that was always a hairsbreadth away. Blood feud. The servants made the sign against evil.

Deli olmayan bütün varl?klar?n arkada?a ihtiyac? vard?r.

Patroclus." Achilles did not slur my name, as people often did, running it together as if in a hurry to be rid of it. Instead, he rang each syllable: Pa-tro-clus.

I can be best for you," I said. "I can please you, I swear it. You will find none more loyal than me. I will do anything.

Era un experto consumado en lo tocante al dolor. Nada podía causar más dolor a Aquiles que aquello: el hombre más próximo a su corazón le traicionaba ante su peor enemigo.

King Agamemnon." Achilles stepped forward. His voice was easy, almost amused. "I don't think anyone has forgotten that you are leader of this host. But you do not seem to remember that we are kings in our own right, or princes, or heads of our families. We are allies, not slaves." A few men nodded; more would have liked to.

Le habían confundido, le habían atado a una apuesta y lo acosaban. Le acaricié la piel suave de la frente. Yo le desataría… si me resultaba posible y él me dejaba.

Your words today have caused your own death, and the death of your men. I will fight for you no longer. Without me, your army will fall. Hector will grind you to bones and bloody dust, and I will watch it and laugh. You will come, crying for mercy, but I will give none. They will all die, Agamemnon, for what you have done here.

He is half of my soul, as the poets say. He will be dead soon, and his honor is all that will remain.

It softened him. This was a more pleasing tale: the princess swooning at his feet, forswearing her cruel father to be with him. Coming to him at night, in secret, that face of hers the only light. Who could say no?

Best of men. Best of the Myrmidons." She places her fingers to my lips, stopping my objection. "It is truth," she says. "Let it stand, for once." Then she leads me to the side of her tent, helps me slip beneath the canvas. The last thing I feel is her hand, squeezing mine in farewell.

Odysseus found the original trouble-causing soldier—Thersites, his name was—and had him beaten quietly into unconsciousness. That was the end of mutinies at Troy.

I watched him hang on the other man's words. He is too trusting. But I would not be the raven on his shoulder all the time, predicting gloom.

It was easy to stay with them long and late, until I heard the creaking of the chariot, and the distant banging of bronze, and returned to greet my Achilles.

I have done it," she says. At first, I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. ACHILLES, it reads. And beside it, PATROCLUS. "Go," she says. "He waits for you.

Best of men. Best of the Myrmidons.