Captures the reader with true magic.

If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.

Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the "fun" of teasing girls, just to get noticed

People give up the earth for beauty.

The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.

History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.

Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.