"We can't all do everything."
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"Time is flying never to return."
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"Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces"
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"Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds."
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"We have to thank God for this retirement."
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"In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth."
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"Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing."
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"I shudder when relating it."
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"He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas"
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"In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom."
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"Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused."
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"Fury itself supplies arms."
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"Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed."
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"Fate will find a way."
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"If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another."
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"There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead."
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"What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race."
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"The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions."
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"If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell."
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"If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell."
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