Φοβού τους Δαναούς και δώρα φέροντες. — Greek myths

"The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair."

"Pygmalion loathing their lascivious life, Abhorrd all womankind, but most a wife: So single chose to live, and shunnd to wed, Well pleasd to want a consort of his bed. Yet fearing idleness, the nurse of ill, In sculpture exercisd his happy skill; And carvd in ivry such a maid, so fair, As Nature could not with his art compare, Were she to work; but in her own defence Must take her pattern here, and copy hence. Pleasd with his idol, he commends, admires, Adores; and last, the thing adord, desires. A very virgin in her face was seen, And had she movd, a living maid had been: One woud have thought she coud have stirrd, but strove With modesty, and was ashamd to move. Art hid with art, so well performd the cheat, It caught the carver with his own deceit: He knows tis madness, yet he must adore, And still the more he knows it, loves the more: The flesh, or what so seems, he touches oft, Which feels so smooth, that he believes it soft. Fird with this thought, at once he straind the breast, And on the lips a burning kiss impressd. Tis true, the hardend breast resists the gripe, And the cold lips return a kiss unripe: But when, retiring back, he lookd again, To think it ivry, was a thought too mean: So woud believe she kissd, and courting more, Again embracd her naked body oer."

"The only thing left inside the jar was Hope."

"Everything King Midas touched turned to gold."

"When Pandora opened the jar, all the evil flooded out into the world."

"No fable made famous by the Greeks is to be neglected."