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Fear
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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
-Virgil
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Fear is proof of a low born soul.
-Virgil
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Fortune
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Fortune sides with him who dares.
-Virgil
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God
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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.
-Virgil
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Gold
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Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
-Virgil
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Gossip
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Rumor grows as it goes.
-Virgil
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Habits
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As a twig is bent the tree inclines.
-Virgil
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Hate
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Press no further with hate.
-Virgil
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Hell
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The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.
-Virgil
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Hope
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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.
-Virgil
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Learning
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Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
-Virgil
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Legacy
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Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
-Virgil, Eclogues, no. 9, l. 50 (37 B.C.)
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Literary
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Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!
-Virgil, Aeneid, The
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Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.
-Virgil, Aeneid, The
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Love
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Nunc scio quit sit amor.
Lat., Now I know what love is.
-Virgil
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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.
-Virgil
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Memory
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Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
-Virgil
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Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
-Virgil, Aenid
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Mind, the
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Mind moves matter.
-Virgil
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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
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The Britons are quite separated from all the world.
-Virgil
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Pleasure
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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.
-Virgil
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Reason
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Happy the man who has been able to know the reasons for things.
-Virgil, Georgics, bk. 2, l. 490 (19 B.C)
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Risk
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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
-Virgil
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Security
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Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.
-Virgil
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Time
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Time bears away all things, even the mind.
-Virgil, Eclogues, Book IX, Line 51.
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