Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
OVIDAnd besides, we lovers fear everything.
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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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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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I can live neither with you, nor without you.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
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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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You will go most safely by the middle way.
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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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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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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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Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.
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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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