"Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you."

"Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind."

"Few sons attain the praise of their fathers; most are worse, few better."

"The bow is useless in the hands of a coward."

"Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus, that ruinous wrath which brought the Achaeans countless woes, and hurled down into Hades many strong souls of heroes, and gave their bodies to be a…"