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“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.”

“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.”