Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.

The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

Sweet is war to those who know it not.