Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'

Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.

All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.