First appearance deceives many.
OVIDIt is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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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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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Love is the force that leaves you colorless.
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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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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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He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.
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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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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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By yielding you may obtain victory.
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