"Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink."
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"Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!"
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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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"Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]"
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"It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched."
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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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"Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground."
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"When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn."
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"I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction."
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"This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God."
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"A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety."
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"Chaste is she whom no one has asked."
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"Tears at times have the weight of speech."
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"Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)"
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"Often a silent face has voice and words."
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"If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched."
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"There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated."
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"Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots."
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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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"There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us."
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