Beauty is a fragile gift.
OVIDWhat is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Time the devourer of all things.
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What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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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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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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