Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.