Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death

After the event, even a fool is wise.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.