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 reward of suffering is experience

Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

If you are not envied, you are not enviable.