Quote #29

In the winter season, For seven days of calm, Alcyone Broods over her nest on the surface of the waters While the sea-waves are quiet. Through this time Aeolus keeps his winds at home, and ocean Is smooth for his descendants' sake.

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  1. Tempus edax rerum
  2. A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
  3. It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
  4. A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
  5. Sunt superis sua iura
  6. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the …
  7. Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor.
  8. A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

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