We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
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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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Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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There is a certain pleasure in weeping.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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You will go most safely by the middle way.
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In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
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We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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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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My vengeance is my guilt.
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Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.
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Time the devourer of all things.
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