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The gods have their own rules.
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Nothing is stronger than habit.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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It is right to learn, even from the enemy.
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[Chaos] A rough, unordered mass of things.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Let love steal in disguised as friendship.
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Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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The same object will both wound and cure me.
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And thrusts the Scorpion with his bended bow.
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Let who does not wish to be idle fall in love!
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Thus all things are but altered, nothing dies.
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For the sharp medic'cine is the patient's cure.
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Now there are fields of corn where Troy once was.
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Every lover is a warrior, and Cupid has his camps.
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Your lot is mortal: not mortal is what you desire.
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The cause is hidden, but the result is well known.
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Rage strengthens the hands, however feeble they may be.
Variant translation: Let anger nerve your hands, weak though they may be
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Say that I live, but in such wise that I would not live.
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They bear punishment with equanimity who have earned it.
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Either don't attempt it, or carry it through to the end.
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I see the better things, and approve; I follow the worse.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
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Although two crimes, a song and a mistake, have done me in.
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They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Gloria Steinem
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March 20, 43 BC
Died:
17 AD
(aged 60)
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