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The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
OVID

Deny Forbidden Strive
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
OVID

Health Medicine Pain Snatch
Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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Beauty Enhance Reality Truth Vision
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Prince Punishment Quick Reward
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
OVID

Gift Love Poet Poor Words
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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Complain Husband Love
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Hope Realized
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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Endurance Goodness Pain Persistance
It’s right to learn, even from the enemy.
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Enemy Learn One Liner
He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.
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Live Onscurity
What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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Change Tomorrow
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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Broke Chain Happiness Hurt Let Ho Man Mind Worry
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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Achievement Attempt Difficult Task Worth
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Material Surpass Work
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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Birthday Dust Grains Youth
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Deed Human Nature Reward Value

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

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