"Each man delights in the work that suits him best."

"For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!"

"But death is universal. Even gods cannot protect the people that they love, when fate and cruel death catch up with them."

"The fates have given mankind a patient soul."

"Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans."