The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

Know not to revere human things too much.

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.

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.