"Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark."
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"Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made."
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"If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame expires."
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"Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow."
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"Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose."
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"You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do."
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"A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]"
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"Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black. [Lat., Furtum ingeniosus ad omne, Qui facere assueret, patriae non degener artis, Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.]"
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"We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark."
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"To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct."
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"In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]"
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"The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]"
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"What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands."
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"Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]"
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"Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty."
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"Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?"
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"Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition."
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"It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist."
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"It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them."
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"Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered."
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