I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

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.

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

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

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.