Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
OVIDMy hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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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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We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
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I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
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First appearance deceives many.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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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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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.
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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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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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We believe slowly when belief brings pain.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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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 can live neither with you, nor without you.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Time the devourer of all things.
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Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
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