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.
VIRGILDo not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
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Fear reveals baseborn souls!
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She has a human face and as far as the groin she is a girl with lovely breasts, but below she is a monstrous sea creature, her womb full of wolves
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All bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
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The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.
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No benefits can be expected from war.
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Fortune favors the bold.
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Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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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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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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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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Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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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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Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.
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Let me rage before I die.
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