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.
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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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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Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.
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A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.
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Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
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Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
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All bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
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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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It is easy to go down into Hell but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub.
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I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
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The noblest motive is the public good.
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Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant.
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Time passes irrevocably.
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Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
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She has a human face and as far as the groin she is a girl with lovely breasts, but below she is a monstrous sea creature, her womb full of wolves
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All things by nature are ready to get worse.
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