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.

God ever works with those who work with will.

I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

The wisest of the wise may err.

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

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.