If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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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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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Even as a cow she was lovely.
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He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.
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Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Time the devourer of all things.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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You will go most safely by the middle way.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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By yielding you may obtain victory.
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It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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My vengeance is my guilt.
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I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
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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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Nothing is stronger than habit.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
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