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What is food to one person may be bitter poison to others.

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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.

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Mother of Aeneas' race; pleasure of gods and mortals alike.
Of Venus

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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

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[The people] were given over in troops to disease and death.

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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

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The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

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Mother of Aeneas and his race, darling of men and gods, nurturing Venus.

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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

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On a dark theme I trace verses full of light, touching all the muses' charm.

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Never trust her at any time, when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.

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Things stand apart so far and differ, that
What's food for one is poison for another.

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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

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The existing universe is bounded in none of its dimensions; for then it must have an outside.

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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly
From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.

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All things must needs be borne on through the calm void, moving at equal rate with unequal weights.

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So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge.

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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

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The ring on the finger becomes thin beneath by wearing, the fall of dripping water hollows the stone.

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Bodies, again,
Are partly primal germs of things, and partly
Unions deriving from the primal germs.

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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

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From the midst of the fountain of delights rises something bitter that chokes them all amongst the flowers.

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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

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Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

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