"Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you."

"The fates have given mankind a patient soul."

"For a man to be good, he must be good for something."

"Hera, do not hope to know all my thoughts; they will be hard for you, although you are my wife."

"Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns."