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One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.


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The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

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We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

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Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.

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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

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Love, unconquerable,
Waster of rich men, keeper
Of warm lights and all-night vigil
In the soft face of a girl:
Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!
Even the pure immortals cannot escape you,
And mortal man, in his one day's dusk,
Trembles before your glory.


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I, whom proof hath taught of late How so far only should we hate our foes As though we soon might love them, and so far Do a friend service as to one most like Someday to prove our foe, since oftenest men In friendship but a faithless haven find.

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No man loves life like him that's growing old.

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For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

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Born: 497 BC
Died: 406 BC (aged 91)
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