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

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

"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…"

"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."

"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 sh…"