The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?