Ovid
Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations.
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.
Nocte latent mendae, vitioque ignoscitur omni, Horaque formosam quamlibet illa facit.
Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.
In the winter season,
For seven days of calm, Alcyone
Broods over her nest on the surface of the waters
While the sea-waves are quiet. Through this time
Aeolus keeps his winds at home, and ocean
Is smooth for his descendants' sake.
Fas est et ab hoste doceri.
Pure women are only those who have not been asked.
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.