There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

The battle is over when the foe has fallen.

When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina