What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
OVIDThe man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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It’s right to learn, even from the enemy.
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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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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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He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
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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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Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
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What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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Nothing is stronger than habit.
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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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