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Love makes one fitt for any work.
Love makes one fitt for any work.
Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the
worse!
I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the
worse!
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from
heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of read more
The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from
heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium
Nudus castra peto.]
They make a desert and they call it peace.
They make a desert and they call it peace.
