The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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First appearance deceives many.
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Time the devourer of all things.
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Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
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The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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Nothing is stronger than habit.
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Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
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It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.
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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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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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Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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