You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
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I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
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A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
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What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
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A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
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Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
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But this is slavery, not to speak ones thought.
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A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.
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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife
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'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore
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The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
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Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.
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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
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wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
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Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
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Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
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Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
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A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.
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A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten.
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Account no man happy till he dies.
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A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
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I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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The wisest men follow their own direction.
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
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