Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both. - Edith Hamilton

Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)

Mankind’s chief hope of escaping the wrath of whatever divinities were then abroad lay in some magical rite, senseless but powerful, or in some offering made at the cost of pain and grief.

Intelligence did not figure largely in anything he did and was often conspicuously absent.