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Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.

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You will go most safely in the middle.

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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

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It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

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Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

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Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise.

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There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

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The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]

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There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

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There will grow from straws a mighty heap.

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Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

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From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

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There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.

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Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

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Put faith in one who's had experience.

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Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. [Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]

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Sleep, nature's rest, divine tranquility, That brings peace to the mind.

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Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

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He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

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She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

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