"Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game."
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"everything changes, nothing perishes"
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"Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself."
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"Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself."
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"When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify."
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"Put faith in one who's had experience."
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"I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style."
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"Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill."
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"In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]"
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"Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe."
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"Whatever charm thou hast, be charming."
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"Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies."
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"Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move"
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"Truly it is allowed us to weep: by weeping we disperse our wrath; and tears go through the heart, even like a stream. [Lat., Flere licet certe: flendo diffundimus iram: Perque sinum lacrimae, fluminis instar enim.]"
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"What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse."
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"In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]"
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"What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave."
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"We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]"
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"Giving calls for genius."
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"Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked."
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