On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

In pain is a new time born.

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.