For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

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.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.