Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.