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.
VIRGILIt 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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Friend, have the courage To care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead
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Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
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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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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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No benefits can be expected from war.
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All bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
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She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
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Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
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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 gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.
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When gods are contrary they stand by no one.
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Let me rage before I die.
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The noblest motive is the public good.
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