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

When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.