"Therein are love, and desire, and loving converse, that steals the wits even of the wise."

"Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death."

"So please go home and tend to your own tasks, / the distaff and the loom, and keep the women / working hard as well."

"Then welcome fate! 'Tis true I perish, yet I perish great: Yet in a mighty deed I shall expire, Let future ages hear it, and admire!"

"There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his own hands and feet."