Apuleius quotes:

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

Her half-closed eyes were moist and tremulous and languid with desire. I began to drink love from them with thirsty kisses; which revived her spirits a litle.

If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.