I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
VIRGILAll bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
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Trust one who has gone through it.
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No day shall erase you from the memory of time.
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Fear reveals baseborn souls!
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The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.
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Friend, have the courage To care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead
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As it spreads, the rumor gains strength.
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The noblest motive is the public good.
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Fortune favors the bold.
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The greatest wealth is health.
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The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.
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Each of us bears his own Hell.
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Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.
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The dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.
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Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man’s mad desire become his god?
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Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.
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Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.
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Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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It is easy to go down into Hell but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub.
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A shifty, fickle object is woman, always.
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Fortune sides with him who dares.
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All our sweetest hours fly fastest
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All things by nature are ready to get worse.
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No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.
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Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.
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