“...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.”

“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love,hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...]His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling--no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.”

“Vera incessu patuit dea.(The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)”

“Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”

“Will Mars be always in your windy tongue and in your flying feet?”

“Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.”

“Optima dies...prima fugit (The best days are the first to flee)”