"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."
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"Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality."
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"Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]"
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"Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]"
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"Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory."
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"There is a certain pleasure in weeping."
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"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."
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"Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light."
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"Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art."
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"Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer."
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"You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe."
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"The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite To sooty blackness from the purest white."
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"It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]"
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"Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation."
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"Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you."
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"The mind alone can not be exiled. [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]"
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"All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash."
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"The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]"
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"Time is generally the best doctor."
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"Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears."
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