Captures the reader with true magic.

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

They memorize everything and learn... nothing.

People give up the earth for beauty.

What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.

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

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