In great things it is enough even to have willed.
Sextus Propertius
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No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
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By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influence...
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Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
[Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]
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I have nothing but a great head to offer.
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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
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Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise.
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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the sheph...
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By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are
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Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
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By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influence...
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Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
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I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. 
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise.
In great enterprises the attempt is... 
I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two
thousand sesterces. How is it that yo... 
Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, “The wise man is always similar to himse... 
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively ... 
I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though d... 
Be strong and courageous to take risks.
You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do. 
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead o... 
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't... 
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them. 
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. 
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don&#... 
Sometimes we don’t have enough faith to do big things, it is immature faith 
He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something ... 
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. 
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time. 
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to y... 
They build their team around that ballpark and they always have great pitching. Great arms on the mo... 
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. 
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. 
Why be greedy when you can have it all. 
To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature. It is not enough to have oppor... 
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or eve... 
It is a lie. 
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses... 
If you have given up something many times over then you are strong-willed in having done it so many ... 
I cannot continue to live a life I am not born to live! I cannot continue to exert my full strength ... 
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. 
I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it ... 
I have nothing but a great head to offer.
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it 
No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere decla... 
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is smal... 
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The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough... 
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Wrong?
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. 
Strong-willed heart attracts. 
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. 
You willed yourself to where you are today, so will yourself out of it. 
If you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the momen... 
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in exces... 
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in exces... 
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in ex... 
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishi... 
Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. 
That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an intere... 
The only thing God is afraid of is a strong-willed human! 
...although both the Academics and the Pyrrhonian Skeptics say that they believe some things, yet he...