"Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?"
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"Trust one who has tried."
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"All things deteriorate in time."
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"Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God."
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"Time passes irrevocably."
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"Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly."
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"A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever."
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"All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . . . In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies."
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"Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all."
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"Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes"
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"Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth."
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"E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky."
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"Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction"
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"He enters the port with a full sail."
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"Each of us bears his own Hell."
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"Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember."
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"Each man is led by his own liking."
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"Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men"
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"We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it."
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"Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances."
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