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.
VIRGILThe descent into Hell is easy.
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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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She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
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If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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Let me rage before I die.
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Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
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No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.
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When gods are contrary they stand by no one.
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Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
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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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Death twitches my ear, live he says – I am coming.
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Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
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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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Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
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Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
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As it spreads, the rumor gains strength.
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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 passes irrevocably.
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Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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The noblest motive is the public good.
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No day shall erase you from the memory of time.
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Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.
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Mind moves matter.
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They can because they think they can.
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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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