The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
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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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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
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We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
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Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.
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Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
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