I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing, Leave a house empty, it rots.

It's right to learn, even from the enemy.

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.

Qui non est hodie eras minus aptus erit. He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow.

My purpose is to tell of bodies that have been changed into shapes of different kinds.

Someday this pain will be useful to you

There is a certain pleasure in weeping

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

He who can believe himself well, will be well.

Or that writing a poem you can read to no one is like dancing in the dark.

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis. (In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

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

All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses, I'm an easy victim. Why, by now Your arrows practically know their own way to the target And feel less at home in their quiver than in me.

Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.

The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.

Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

All things change; nothing perishes.

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are

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

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Love is the force that leaves you colorless