Ovid quote: "Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”<br />"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you."

First appearance deceives many.
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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ev...
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Venus favors the bold.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, ther...
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Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be crue...
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip ...
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An evil life is a kind of death.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lie...
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Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there wil...
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To be loved, be lovable. -Ovid.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there...
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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
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Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for m...
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Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, ther...
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknow...
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase wit...
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief i...
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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained b...
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Nothing is swifter than our years.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.
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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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everything changes, nothing perishes
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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. ...
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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.
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When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and ...
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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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The drop hollows the stone not by force but by often falling.
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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
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Neglect of appearance becomes men.
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When disposition wins us, the features please.
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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
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To give requires good sense.
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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
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It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our ...
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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Habits change into character.
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Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
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Bear patiently with a rival.
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I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The bles...
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
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Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Keep a mid course between two extremes.
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You will go most safely in the middle.
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Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
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It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other w...
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A short absence is the safest.
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and ...
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Delay is a great procuress
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for me...
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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
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Skill makes love unending.
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.
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Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.
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Envy aims very high.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a...
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Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there...
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, i...
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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encour...
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of ...
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying...
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Love is a credulous thing.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
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Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The...
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How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these
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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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Courage conquers all things.
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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The...
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We can learn even from our enemies.
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Time the devourer of all things.
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The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat)
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To be loved, be lovable.
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Nothing is stronger than habit.
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When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
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So I can't live either without you or with you.
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We two are to ourselves a crowd.
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The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
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Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
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Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
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Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, ther...
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By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Love is full of anxious fears.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and f...
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Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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Burdens become light when cheerfully borne
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Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.
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It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competito...
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Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
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Love fed fat soon turns to boredom
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Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to f...
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Little things please little minds.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quen...
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We two form a multitude.
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Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation. [Lat.: Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are
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I can't live either without you or with you
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Time on time revolving we descry, So moments flit, so moments fly
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Resist beginnings it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate hab...
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Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the d...
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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and de...
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In our play we reveal what kind of people we are
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times.
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All things change; nothing perishes
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Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi, sed saepe cadendo. - A drop of water hollows a stone, not by force, but...
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Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity
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I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and, cold and dry, thinks of her sewin...
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Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm
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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
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Everyone is a millionaire where promises are concerned
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How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand
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She half consents who silently denies
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At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman
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I got nervous at bulls and eagles,
Trying to figure what shape Zeus might take for sex
Whe...
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Venus of Eryx, from her mountain throne,
Saw Hades and clasped her swift-winged son, and said:<...
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She made up prayers and said them,
Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing,
Her cust...
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And besides, we lovers fear everything
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Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.

(In this place I am a barbarian, because...
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Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).
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Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.
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Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be use...
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.

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"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.

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"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.