Rock stars, is there anything they don't know?

There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of his hands.

I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!