- Ares: No. Life *isn't* worth living. It's to be *taken*, and *beaten*. And wrestled, and formed in your image. *That's* where the meaning lies. In what you can twist life into. For those who just *endure* life, yeah: it is a very nasty joke. But for those who form it with their will, the joke is on those who get in the way.
- Xena: I must be crazy. You're beginning to make sense.
- Xena: [after a fight and being enchanted by the Furies] I love the smell of warrior sweat in the morning.