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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
Habits change into character.
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
First appearance deceives many.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
The gods behold all righteous actions.
Love is a kind of warfare.
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Love is full of anxious fears.
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
She made up prayers and said them,Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing,Her customary magic, which would coverThe white moon's face and darken the sun with cloud."
Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses"
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]
With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy.
A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.
By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur; Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. [Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]
If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]
Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
Art lies by its own artifice.
Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]
This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]
Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]
The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]
A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog.
Venus favors the bold.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
I can't live without you or with you.
All things change, nothing perishes.
If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.
Love is the force that leaves you colorless
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Time is generally the best doctor.
As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
Dripping water hollows out a stone
"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)
By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.
We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.
When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
What is without periods of rest will not endure.
Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.
He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.
It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]
The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]
Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.
It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.
Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.
Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod
Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.
Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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.
The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.
Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.
Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
The end doesn't justify the means.
Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.
Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

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