For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.