“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.”

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.”

“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”

“O gods, \ If any gods will listen, I deserve \ Punishment surely, I do not refuse it, \ But lest, in living, I offend the living, Offend the dead in death, drive me away \ From either realm, change me somehow, refuse me \ Both life and death! -- Myrrha, before being transformed into a tree”

“God himself helps those who dare.”

“Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.”

“Darkness makes any woman fair.”