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Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrix ex aliis alias reparat natura figuras: nec perit in toto quicquam, mihi credite, mundo, sed variat faciemque novat, nascique vocatur incipere esse aliud, quam quod fuit ante, morique desinere illud idem. cum sint huc forsitan illa, haec translata illuc, summa tamen omnia constant.
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Little things please little minds.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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An evil life is a kind of death.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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Continua messe senescit ager.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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Iuppiter ex alto periuria ridet amantum.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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Inopem me copia fecit.
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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