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I said everything that a painful swelling in one's libido tells one to say.
Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
Outward looks are not enough,
Beauty is not common stuff-
Of merriment it is compact,
Playful grace in every act,
Witty laughter, laughing wit:
These are things that go with it,
These surpass the simple graces
In beautiful and silly faces.
Art is beauty; and I say:
Take the lovely fool away!-
If she strips from foot to head
And doesn't ask me into bed.
One good turns deserve another
Women are one and all a set of vultures.
Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.
I saw with my own eyes the Sibyl of Cumae hanging in a jar, and when the boys said to her, Sibyl, what do you want? she replied I want to die.
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
So the starry sky turns round like a millstone, always bringing some trouble, and men being born or dying.
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
He has gone over to the majority.
No man on earth may look on forbidden things as you have done and escape punishment. Especially here, a land so infested with divinity that one might meet a god more easily than a man.
What the Gods want happens soon
A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.'
Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
One good turn deserves another.
Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.
It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
