All things by nature are ready to get worse.
VIRGILEvery 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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Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man’s mad desire become his god?
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Time is flying never to return.
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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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No day shall erase you from the memory of time.
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Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.
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Each of us bears his own Hell.
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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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Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
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All our sweetest hours fly fastest
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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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I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
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The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.
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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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