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To Fortune's forelock Charles knew how to cling When favourable to him her face she showed. (Ludovico Ariosto)
'Tis our bent To sin, and thine to pardon who repent. View quote
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To others never do That which yourselves would wish undone to you. View quote
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He who grows old in love, besides all pain Which waits such passion, well deserves a chain. View quote
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Do not only look For gentlefolk in castles: everywhere, In humble dwellings and in haylofts, too, The hearts of men are often kind and true. View quote
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As nought good endures beneath the skies, So ill endures no more. View quote
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From history's examples we conclude, And modern instances teach us the same: Good follows Evil, Evil follows Good, Shame ends in glory, glory ends in shame. Thus it is evident that no man should Put trust in victories or wealth or fame, Nor yet despair if Fortune is adverse: She turns her wheel for better, as for worse. View quote
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Inlaid on walls, on roof-tops and on floors, Are rarest pearls and other precious gems. View quote
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His eyes were almost sunken in his head; His face was thin and fleshless as a bone. His tangled, bristling hair, inspiring dread, And shaggy beard were wild to look upon. View quote
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No man, the proverb says, will hesitate To gather firewood from a fallen tree. View quote
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Love should make a churlish nature kind, And not transform to rude a gentle breast. (Ludovico Ariosto)
Ill doers in the end shall ill receive. View quote
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A virgin is like a rose: while she remains on the thorn whence she sprang, alone and safe in a lovely garden, no flock, no shepherd approaches. The gentle breeze and the dewy dawn, water, and earth pay her homage; amorous youths and loving maidens like to deck their brows with her, and their breasts. / But no sooner is she plucked from her mother-stalk, severed from her green stem, than she loses all, all the favour, grace, and beauty wherewith heaven and men endowed her. View quote
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For when the water is up to your neck you must be truly stubborn not to cry for help. View quote
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What a man sees, Love can make invisible-and what is invisible, that can Love make him see. View quote
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A poor wretch will readily believe whatever suits him. View quote
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Ah, cruel Love! What is the reason why You seldom make our longings correspond? How is it, traitor, you rejoice to spy Two hearts discordant, one repelled, one fond? View quote
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I saw them come towards us, deeply sighing, Their gaze averted, of all hope devoid. View quote
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For what in all the world is left to her Whose chastity is lost? View quote
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The harsh realities of war impose More searching tests of valour, be it said, Than grace and style; and fortune too is needed, Without which valour seldom has succeeded. View quote
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For it would be indeed a foolish plan, Two living men to lose for one dead man. (Ludovico Ariosto)
No man can know by whom he's truly loved When high on Fortune's wheel he sits, serene. His friends surround him, true and false, unproved, And the same loyalty in all is seen. When to catastrophe the wheel is moved The crowd of flatterers passes from the scene; But he who loves his lord with all his heart Remains, nor after death does he depart. View quote
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Void is contract made in fear. View quote
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Gabrina kept her eyes upon the ground, For to the truth no answer can be found. View quote
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Who laughs, as well will sometimes have to plain, And find that Fortune will by fits rebel. View quote
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