The gods have their own rules.
There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.
If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.
Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.