"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."

"…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad."

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

"Even a fool learns something once it hits him."

"For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother"

"A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time"

"There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

"Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this."

"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for."

"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter."

"Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death"

"I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!"

"We men are wretched things."

"Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans."

"Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share."

"Some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind"

"The journey is the thing."

"Each man delights in the work that suits him best."

"Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate "No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny."."

"There will be killing till the score is paid."

"Life is largely a matter of expectation."

"No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born."

"My name is Nobody."

"If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer."

"The blade itself incites to deeds of violence."

"...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance."

"Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement."

"No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny."

"Out of sight,out of mind"

"Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly."

"And empty words are evil."

"Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better."

"There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth."

"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."

"Immortals are never alien to one another."

"Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile"

"His descent was like nightfall."

"Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die."

"Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause."

"Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!"

"Choose well."

"Too many kings can ruin an army"

"Aries in his many fits knows no favorites."

"…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives."

"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."

"Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms."

"The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us."

"You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?"