If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.