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.

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Do not kick against the pricks.

The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.