Friend, have the courage To care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead
VIRGILDo not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
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Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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All our sweetest hours fly fastest
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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
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No day shall erase you from the memory of time.
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Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
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Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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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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Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant.
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As it spreads, the rumor gains strength.
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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
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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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Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
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The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.
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No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.
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The noblest motive is the public good.
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Fear reveals baseborn souls!
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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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I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
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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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The greatest wealth is health.
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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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Let me rage before I die.
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When gods are contrary they stand by no one.
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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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Fortune sides with him who dares.
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