Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
VIRGILFortunate 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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Friend, have the courage To care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead
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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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She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
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Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.
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Time passes irrevocably.
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Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
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Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
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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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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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If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
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Trust one who has gone through it.
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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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Death twitches my ear, live he says – I am coming.
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