August 2010
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“Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.”
– Ovid, Tristia, I, i, 39
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“Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.”
– Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the...”
– Democritus 460 BC ~ 370 BC
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“Your life is what your thoughts make it.”
– Marcus Aurelius (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)
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“There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that...”
– Polybius (205 BC - 118 BC)
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Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek...
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“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight...”
– Plato (via paperlover, bluesclueless)
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“Each of us bears his own Hell.”
– Virgil, The Aeneid, Book VI, line 743
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“We are but dust and shadow.”
– Horace, Odes, Book IV, ode vii, line 16
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“If you want to be loved, be lovable.”
– Ovid, Ars Amatoria, II, 107
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“It is easy to go down into Hell;
Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand...”
– Virgil, The Aeneid, Book VI, line 126
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“The stars about the full moon lose their bright beauty when she,
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– Sappho, ancient Greek poet
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