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

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Sextus Propertius: 'Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.'

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Sextus Propertius: 'Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.'

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Sextus Propertius: 'Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.'

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Sextus Propertius: 'No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.'

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Sextus Propertius: 'Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.'

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Athanasius: 'One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.'

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Athanasius: 'Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.'

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Athanasius: 'The Son of God became man so that we might become God.'

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Charles V: 'Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.'

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Charles V: 'Iron hand in a velvet glove.'

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Charles V: 'I came, I saw, God conquered.'

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Charles V: 'To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.'

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Charles V: 'My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.'

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Charles V: 'Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.'

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Charles V: 'I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.'

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Tiberius: 'Power has no limits.'

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Tiberius: 'Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.'

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Tiberius: 'To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.'

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Tiberius: 'It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.'

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