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In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

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Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

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The gods have their own rules.

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I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.

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He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.

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We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

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Art is most effective when concealed.

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You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

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When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

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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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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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Put faith in one who's had experience.

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Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

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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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When you have set yourself a task finish it.

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What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]

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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

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Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine.

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Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

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