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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes. ↗

— Romano Prodi

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Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

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By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

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To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living. ↗

— Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

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Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

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I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

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Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

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Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

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