Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
OVIDGreatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.
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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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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
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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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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
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And besides, we lovers fear everything.
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Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.
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Little things please little minds.
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What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
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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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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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There is a certain pleasure in weeping.
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