“As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.”

“Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.”

“Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back!Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierceas the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down.Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one -and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess,with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!”

“No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.”

“Her gray eyes clear, the goddess Athena answered, "Down from the skies I come to check your rage if only you will yield”

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”