I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
VIRGILRumor 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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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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Time passes irrevocably.
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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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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
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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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Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
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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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Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.
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Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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The descent into Hell is easy.
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All things by nature are ready to get worse.
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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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Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.
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