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.
OVIDGive way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
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God himself helps those who dare.
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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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He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.
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You will go most safely by the middle way.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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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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I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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Time the devourer of all things.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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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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I 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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Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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