Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.

Learn what you are and be such.

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

The present will not long endure.