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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.

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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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Desire Difficult Hard Time Love Relationship
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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Laughter One Liner Silly
I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
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Agony Emotion Feeling Hate Known Love Myself Tear
I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]
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Feeling Hate Myself Query Question Torture
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Age Birth Birthday Cake Surprise Taste
Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Gratitude Oneself Stop Thinking
My mind’s sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn’t like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.
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Love Low Mindset Stop Women Wreck Yourself
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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Angry Favor God Right Wild Wrong
I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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Agony Feeling Hate Love Myself
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Hate Love Myself
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
We see not our own backs.
CATULLUS

Back Mistake One Liner Ourselves
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
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Civil Culture Greatness Imagination Misfortune People Power Religious Ruler
Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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Deserve Give Up Gratitude Thankful Thinking
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Confirm Difficult One Liner Passion
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Better Death Gratitude Live Worth

The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.

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