I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
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You will go most safely by the middle way.
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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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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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I can live neither with you, nor without you.
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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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Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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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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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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