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.
VIRGILAll our sweetest hours fly fastest
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No benefits can be expected from war.
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Fortune favors the bold.
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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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Time passes irrevocably.
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Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.
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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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A shifty, fickle object is woman, always.
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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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As it spreads, the rumor gains strength.
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She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
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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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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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Fear reveals baseborn souls!
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All bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
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