Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
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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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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
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Time the devourer of all things.
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He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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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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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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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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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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