Friend, have the courage To care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead
VIRGILDo the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man’s mad desire become his god?
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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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The descent into Hell is easy.
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She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
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A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.
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No day shall erase you from the memory of time.
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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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No benefits can be expected from war.
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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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Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
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Fortune sides with him who dares.
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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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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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The noblest motive is the public good.
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Let me rage before I die.
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A shifty, fickle object is woman, always.
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Fortune favors the bold.
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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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The greatest wealth is health.
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Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.
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All things by nature are ready to get worse.
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Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
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The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.
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I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
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All our sweetest hours fly fastest
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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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Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
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