Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
OVIDI grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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Nothing is stronger than habit.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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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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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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Venus is kind to creatures as young as we; We know not what we do, and while we’re young We have the right to live and love like gods.
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Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.
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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 and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
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Little things please little minds.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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