Quotes

In truth there is only one deity, eternal, creative, all-powerful, Venus Genetrix. She brings souls together; she unites bodies and things.

Pliny declares, as I hear, that he does not believe in the gods, but he believes in dreams; and perhaps he is right.

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

Eros called the world out of chaos. Whether he did well is another question; but, since he did so, we should recognize his might, though we are free not to bless it.

Riches, glory, power are mere smoke, vanity! The rich man will find a richer than himself; the greater glory of another will eclipse a man who is famous; a strong man will be conquered by a stronger. But can Cæsar himself, can any god even, experience greater delight or be happier than a simple mortal at the moment when at his breast there is breathing another dear breast, or when he kisses beloved lips? Hence love makes us equal to the gods.

As light comes from the sun, so does happiness come from love.

Whoso loves beauty is unable for that very reason to love deformity. One may not believe in our gods, but it is possible to love them...

A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers, giving them not only a faithful picture, but likewise human documents that may be relied upon.

It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.

The dry and cold teaching of the Stoics, to which virtuous people rally, tempers the heart as a sword is tempered, but it makes it indifferent rather than better.

. The modern man is conscious of everything, and cannot find a remedy against anything.