I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.
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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
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Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.
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It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
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This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.
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Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor
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Fortune sides with him who dares.
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As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
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Fortune favors the brave.
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Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
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Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.
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Latet anguis in herba. (There's a snake hidden in the grass)
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Audentis Fortuna iuvat. (Fortune assists the bold) also Fortune favors the bold.
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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
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Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.
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All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . .In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.
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As a twig is bent the tree inclines.
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Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.
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Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit (Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid)
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Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
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Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.
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Possunt quia posse videntur. (They can because they think they can, from The Aeneid)
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A snake lurks in the grass.
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It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
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I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
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They can because they think they can.
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In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.
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Death's brother, Sleep.
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