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Publius Ovidius Naso
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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.]
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Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.
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Beauty is a frail good.
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Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop
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Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.
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If he should love deny him what he loves!
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A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.
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Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
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Be patient and tough someday this pain will be useful to you.
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There is no need of words believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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A thousand ills require a thousand cures.
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Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.
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Every woman thinks herself attractive even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.
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Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.
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