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“But that is in the past now. Let it go, despite our grief. We must suppress our feelings inside ourselves, out of necessity. I cease my anger now. It is not right for me to rage with never-ending fury.”

“Athena, the goddess with the sparkling eyes, was pleased, because he named her first of all the gods. She made his arms and legs more powerful, and set in him the courage of a fly, who works so hard and so persistently, yearning to bite a human being's flesh because she loves the taste of human blood.”

“There is, I realize, no way to rage with furious anger in one's heart forever.”

“Now all of you together keep fighting. If you are wounded by flying arrows or a thrusting sword and meet your death and destiny - so be it!
Die! You will suffer no disgrace in dying.”

“I fear the Greeks may make us pay the debt
of yesterday. Beside these ships there is
a man whose thirst for war is never sated,
and I do not believe that he will stay completely out of battle any longer.”

“But in fact, a million ways to die stand all around us. No mortal can escape or flee from death.”

“From the high heaven he sent down thick drops
of gushing blood, because it was his will to send so many living men to Hades.”

“Release the rage that hurts your heart. Do everything or nothing, death still comes.”

“I have been watching for chances to kill the enemy. I have shot eight long-pointed arrows, and each has found its mark in the flesh of some brave young warrior. But here's a mad dog I cannot hit.”

“Dear heart, I beg you, don't distress yourself too much. No one is going to send me down to Hades before my time, though death itself, I think, is something no man, coward or hero, can escape, once he has come into this world.”