Euripides

(Emily Wilson tr.)

Helen, line 1102--1106:

(to Aphrodite (Venus))
Why are you never sated
with wickedness: deceit and tricks and lust,
and charms that spill the blood of families!
You'd be the sweetest of the gods to humans
if you were less excessive. That's the truth.

Helen, line 1138--1142:

What mortal can think it all through and explain
what is god, what is not god, and what's in between?
The most one can hope is to glimpse how their works
leaps around, back and forth and around,
in a world of surprises and self-contradiction.