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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

To be loved, be lovable. -Ovid.

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a fish.

We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.

The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains.

Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it.