The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
OVIDIt’s a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.
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Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Time the devourer of all things.
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By yielding you may obtain victory.
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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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Venus is kind to creatures as young as we; We know not what we do, and while we’re young We have the right to live and love like gods.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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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 is the force that leaves you colorless.
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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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