Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
VIRGILEvery man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.
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Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.
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Mind moves matter.
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A shifty, fickle object is woman, always.
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Each of us bears his own Hell.
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Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.
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Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.
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No benefits can be expected from war.
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All our sweetest hours fly fastest
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The dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.
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The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.
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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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Death twitches my ear, live he says – I am coming.
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Time is flying never to return.
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Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.
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Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.
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