"No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus! By god, I'd rather slave on earth for another man-- Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breath…"

"To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!"

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."

"The gods do not give all men the gift of song."

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