ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.