There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
Sappho
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over
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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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Death must be an Evil - and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away
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In fact she herself once blamed meKyprogeneiabecause I prayed this word: I want.
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Their heart grew coldthey let their wings down
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]Sardisoften turning her thoughts here]you like a goddessand in your song most of all she rejoiced. But now she is conspicuous among Lydian womenas sometimes at sunsetthe rosyfingered moonsurpasses all the stars. And her lightstretches over salt seaequally and flowerdeep fields. And the beautiful dew is poured outand roses bloom and frailchervil and flowering sweetclover. But she goes back and forth rememberinggentle Atthis and in longingshe bites her tender mind
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]sing to usthe one with violets in her lap]mostly]goes astray
Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me, Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature.
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Yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayshame would not hold down your eyesbut rather you would speak about what is just
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