Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

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

Call no man happy till he is dead.

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.