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.
OVIDAll love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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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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Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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God himself helps those who dare.
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In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
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We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
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