"If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing."
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"Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]"
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"The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]"
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"The love of country is more powerful than reason itself."
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"Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance."
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"One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired."
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"He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed."
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"Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged."
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"Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave."
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"Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty."
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"Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight."
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"The gods behold all righteous actions."
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"Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more"
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"Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use."
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"Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity."
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"Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates."
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"He who says o'er much I love not is in love."
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"The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal."
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"The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains."
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"He who can simulate sanity will be sane."
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