What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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And besides, we lovers fear everything.
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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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It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.
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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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Little things please little minds.
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He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
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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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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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