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Love, and a cough, are not concealed.

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O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

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We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]

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If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

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The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

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It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

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It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

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Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

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The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

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Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

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We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.

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Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

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Either attempt it not, or succeed.

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With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy.

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There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

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A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

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If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

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Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

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Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.

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