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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
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Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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An evil life is a kind of death.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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Envy aims very high.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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First appearance deceives many.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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He who says o'er much I love not is in love.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
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Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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Little things please little minds.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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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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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
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The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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There is a god within us.
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
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Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
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Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
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Venus favors the bold.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
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You will go most safely in the middle.
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Category: Literature Quotes
Occupation: Poet
Year of Birth: 43 BC
Year of Death: 17 AD





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