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.
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.