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To give requires good sense.

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Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

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That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.

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I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]

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Love is the force that leaves you colorless

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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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My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.

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Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.

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The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.

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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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Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.

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All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

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Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

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Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

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It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

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See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In promises anyone can be rich.

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"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

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

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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

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