When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.
It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
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.
All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.