And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

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.

The words of truth are simple.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.