Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.

Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.