The best things beyond their measure cloy.

Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.

Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.

Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.