It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.
Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.