“Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.”

“Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.”

“He plunged his arms deep to embraceOne who vanished in agitated water.Again and again he kissed The lips that seemed to be rising to kiss hisBut dissolved, as he touched them,Into a soft splash and a shiver of ripples.How could he clasp and caress his own reflection?And still he could not comprehend What the deception was, what the delusion.He simply became more excited by it.Poor misguided boy! Why clutch so vainlyAt such a brittle figment? What you hopeTo lay hold of has no existence.Look away and what you love is nowhere.”

“When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.”

“amor crevit tempore”

“Nitimur in vetitum" -- "We strive after the forbidden”

“Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love”