"Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years."
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"Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love"
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"Let love steal in disguised as friendship."
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"Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now."
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"If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows."
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"I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate."
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"Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling."
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"Hate I shall, if I can; if I can't, I shall love though not willing."
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"The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier."
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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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"Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]"
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"They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen. [Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]"
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"Agreeing to differ. [Lat., Discors concordia.]"
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"Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]"
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"Have consideration for wounded feelings."
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"The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]"
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"Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate"
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"Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive."
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"Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid."
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"We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre."
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