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.

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.