"It is the act of a coward to wish for death."
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"A bitter drug oft brings relief."
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"What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives."
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"Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own."
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"Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury."
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"Grief brims itself and flows away in tears."
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"Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts."
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"As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris"
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"Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked."
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"Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a part in May Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay; And as the confines of two months are thine To sing of both the double task be mine."
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"Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]"
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"The gods have their own laws. [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]"
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"That you may be beloved, be amiable."
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"Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina"
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"The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man."
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"What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire. [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]"
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"A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]"
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"I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]"
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"A pleasing face is no small advantage."
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"What is reason now was passion heretofore."
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