That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.

The lucky person passes for a genius.