"Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast."
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"In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength."
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"Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound."
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"We two are to ourselves a crowd."
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"We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle."
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"When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy."
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"A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]"
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"All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil."
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"He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire."
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"If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another."
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"There is a divinity within our breast."
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"Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."
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"The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]"
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"Courage conquers all things."
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"To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets."
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"Simplicity is a jewel rarely found."
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"Only the mind cannot be sent into exile."
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"I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty. [Lat., Ardua molimur; sed nulla nisi ardua virtus.]"
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"As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions."
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"Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die."
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