"Achilles…slit open [Tros'] liver, the liver spurted loose, gushing with dark blood, drenched his lap and the night swirled down his eyes as his life breath slipped away."

"The difficulty is to know when you have found your ideal."

"The gods do not take all men's wits away."

"It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive."

"Strange to behold, what blame these mortals can bring against godhead! For their ills, they assert, are from us, when they themselves by their mad recklessness have pain far past what is fated."