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The whole earth is the brave man's country.

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.

The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite To sooty blackness from the purest white.

Knowest thou not that kings have long hands?

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand.

Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard.

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled.

Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.

The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

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

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Those graceful groves that shade the plain, Where Tiber rolls majestic to the main, And flattens, as he runs, the fair campagne.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.