1.
Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
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2.
Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil
Can daunt a pure affection.
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3.
Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies
are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind.
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4.
Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.
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5.
Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.
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6.
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
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7.
Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs
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8.
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.
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9.
It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.
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