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

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

“Words are doctors for the diseased temper.”

“Death is softer by far than tyranny.”

“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”

“Sorrow with me, Sorrowful one!Tell me, whose voice proclaimsThings true and sad,Naming by all their old, unhappy names,What drove me mad--”

“CLYTEMNESTRAWhat ails thee, raising this ado for us?SLAVEI say the dead are come to slay the living.”