Art is far feebler than necessity.

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

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

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.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

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