“ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.”

“ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.”

“There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.”

“Call no man happy till he is dead.”

“Bethink thee of the adage, 'Call none blest, till peaceful death have crowned a life of weal.”

“Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of deathand the stroke that hits the vein,the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief,the curse no man can bear.But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no,not from others but from them,their bloody strife. We sing to you,dark gods beneath the earth.Now hear, you blissful powers underground --answer the call, send help.Bless the children, give them triumph now.”

“Death is softer by far than tyranny.”