"The day of return for a man long absent is the best of days."

"Doesn't the son of Tydeus know, down deep, the man who fights the gods does not live long?"

"The heart of man is a strange thing."

"The gods do not take all men's wits away."

"And nature is of mortals once deceased. For they nor muscle have, nor flesh, nor bone; All those (the spirit from the body once. Divorced) the violence of fire consumes, And, like a dream, the soul fl…"