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There is a certain pleasure in weeping.
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Cry One Liner Pain Please Pleasure Weep
Nothing is stronger than habit.
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Habit One Liner Strong
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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Creature God Love Planet Venus Young
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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Alcohol Nap Refresh Stimulation
Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.
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Cloak Enter Friendship Love Name One Liner
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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Ancient Born Praise Time
Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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Death Deep Delay Punishment
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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Honest Man Sorry
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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Deny Forbidden Strive
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Believe Convenient God
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
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Care Fear Love
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Return Time Waves
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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Broke Chain Happiness Hurt Let Ho Man Mind Worry
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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Complain Husband Love
And besides, we lovers fear everything.
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Fear Lover One Liner
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
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Arise Believe Morning Positive

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