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| | In the throat |
| Of Hell, before the very vestibule |
| Of opening Orcus, sit Remorse and Grief, |
| And pale Disease, and sad Old Age and Fear, |
| And Hunger that persuades to crime, and Want: |
| Forms terrible to see. Suffering and Death |
| Inhabit here, and Death’s own brother Sleep; |
| And the mind’s evil lusts and deadly War, |
| Lie at the threshold, and the iron beds |
| Of the Eumenides; and Discord wild |
| Her viper-locks with bloody fillets bound. |
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| | E’en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain |
| Pluck’d from the brittle stalk the golden grain, |
| Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, |
| And prone on earth th’ infuriate storm descend, |
| Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, |
| The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, |
| As the light straw and rapid stubble fly |
| In dark’ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky. |
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| A woman is always changeable and capricious. | 3 |
| Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do? | 4 |
| Age bears away with it all things, even the powers of the mind. | 5 |
| An immense, misshapen, marvelous monster, whose eye is out. | 6 |
| Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth. | 7 |
| Arcadians skilled in song will sing my woes upon the hills. Softly shall my bones repose, if you in future sing my loves upon your pipe. | 8 |
| Be happy ye, whose fortunes are already completed. | 9 |
| Being myself no stranger to suffering, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others. | 10 |
| Believe one who has tried it. | 11 |
| Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers. | 12 |
| Command large fields, but cultivate small ones. | 13 |
| Confidence is nowhere safe. | 14 |
| Deep rest, and sweet, most like indeed to death’s own quietness. | 15 |
| Even virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person. | 16 |
| Every man has his appointed day; life is brief and irrevocable; but it is the work of virtue to extend our fame by our deeds. | 17 |
| Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience. | 18 |
| Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind. | 19 |
| For they can conquer who believe they can. | 20 |
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| Fortune helps the bold. | 21 |
| From one learn all. | 22 |
| Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality. | 23 |
| Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. | 24 |
| Is it then so sad a thing to die? | 25 |
| It flourishes by its very activity, und gains new strength by its movements. | 26 |
| It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be. | 27 |
| Learn now of the treachery of the Greeks, and from one example the character of the nation may be known. | 28 |
| Love conquers all things; let us yield to love. | 29 |
| Mind moves matter. | 30 |
| My voice stuck in my throat. | 31 |
| Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction. | 32 |
| Now, every field and every tree is in bloom; the woods are now in full leaf, and the year is in its highest beauty. | 33 |
| Praise a large domain, cultivate a small state. | 34 |
| Small in number, but their valor tried in war, and glowing. | 35 |
| Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor—the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. * * * A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. | 36 |
| Tears are due to human misery. | 37 |
| The irreclaimable time flies. | 38 |
| The medicine increases the disease. | 39 |
| The mind of man is ignorant of fate and future destiny, and can not keep within due bounds when elated by prosperity. | 40 |
| The noblest motive is the public good. | 41 |
| The rude rabble are enraged; now firebrands and stones fly. | 42 |
| Their rage supplies them with weapons. | 43 |
| This shall be thy work: to impose conditions of peace, to spare the lowly and to overthrow the proud. | 44 |
| Thus I knew that pups are like dogs, and kids like goats; so I used to compare great things with small. | 45 |
| Trust not too much to an enchanting face. | 46 |
| Vice lives and thrives best by concealment. | 47 |
| We bear each one our own destiny. | 48 |
| We cannot all do all things. | 49 |
| What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? | 50 |
| When the first is plucked, a second will not be wanting. | 51 |
| Wherever the fates lead us let us follow. | 52 |
| Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor? | 53 |
| Who can deceive a lover? | 54 |
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