"Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful."
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"This victory will be your I ruin."
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"It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem"
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"That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow."
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"Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass."
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"It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled."
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"Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts."
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"My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger."
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"No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred."
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"Novelty in all things is charming."
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"Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey."
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"Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own."
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"Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair."
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"What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire."
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"Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most."
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"She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does."
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"It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul."
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"I see and approve better things, but follow worse."
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"To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness."
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"An evil life is a kind of death."
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