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“Our task now is a much simpler one. It is neither more nor less than the hunting down of a murderer."
"You call that simpler?!”

"Dancing on the edge of death. I don’t like it.”

“You have two choices: fight, or run away: just try to save your lives! Not one of you will get away from death."

“You did not fear the gods who live in heaven, and you thought no man would ever come to take revenge. Now you are trapped inside the snares of death."

“He slapped his chest and told himself: ‘Be strong my heart.’”
“When she touched him, she would feel his scar and all would be revealed. She kneeled beside him, and washed her master. Suddenly, she felt the scar.”

“I have been hit before. I know hard knocks.
I am resilient.”
“I do not blame you for being angry. In my heart I do know right and wrong. But I cannot even afford to think my own heart's thoughts.”

“I suffered terribly, and I was lost, but after twenty years, I have come home. The goddess can transform me as she likes. For heavenly gods it is not difficult to make a mortal beautiful or ugly."

“You are worn down and brokenhearted, always dwelling on pain and wandering. You never feel joy at heart. You have endured too much.”

“His build is strong, his legs and arms and neck are very sturdy, and he is in his prime, though he has been broken by suffering. No pain can shake a man as badly as the sea, however strong he once was."

“The hero who had suffered for so long was happy. He lay down inside and heaped more leaves on top. Athena poured down sleep to shut his eyes so all his painful weariness could end.”

“But death is universal. Even gods cannot protect the people that they love, when fate and cruel death catch up with them."
“Are you so foolish that you choose to give up, and take pleasure in your pain?”

“Devour each other's property, not mine. Or do you really think it right to waste one person's means of life, and go scot-free? Then try it. You will die here, and nobody will care.”

“He must get through this by his own strength alone.”

“The vibrant beauty of new leaves that glittered in the breeze as spring passed into summer, the mystical stillness of moonless twilight before the sun rose over the mountains, the stirrings of wild creatures that could be heard from the depths of the dark night. I wouldn't mind staying here and settling down.”

“When I die, you can simply let my family know by letter. I already told my brother before I left.
As for my body, use this money to bury me, for old friendship's sake.”

“However, I daresay there are certain joys that can only be found by those who take the way of the sword.”

“Is it possible to commit a crime and be unaware of it?"

“Poor Mr Poirot, not so good at these little criminal matters as you thought yourself, are you? Rather past your prime, perhaps?”

“Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased.”

"The sanity of a city full of men against the insanity of one man.”

“What do you call the unforgivable error?”
“Overlooking the obvious.”

“Ignorant people don't love knowledge or desire wisdom either, because the trouble with ignorance is precisely that if a person lacks virtue and knowledge, he's perfectly satisfied with the way he is. If a person isn't aware of a lack, he can't desire the thing which he isn't aware of lacking."

“A lover is bad if he is of the common type,
who loves the body rather than the mind.”

“You pay a high price for being immortal: you have to die several times during your life.”

“The things that humanity used to think seriously about are not even realities, just figments of the imagination or, to put it more strongly, lies from the bad instincts of sick natures who were harmful in the deepest sense.”

“Nothing burns you up more quickly than the effects of resentiment. Annoyance, abnormal vulnerability, inability to take revenge, the desire, the thirst for revenge, every type of poisoning - these are definitely the most harmful ways for exhausted people to react.”