Great Throughts Treasury

"Is it then so sad a thing to die?"

"It flourishes by its very activity, und gains new strength by its movements."

"It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task."

"It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub."

"It is easy to go down into Hell; Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air-- There's the rub, the task."

"It is of benefit to have improved life through discovered knowledge."

"It is then so sad a thing to die."

"It is time the truth was known and Romanian society became aware of this event... The truth isn't enough to be unveiled. It must be spread to make it known."

"It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be."

"It seemed otherwise to the gods."

"It would be all right with me,"

"Just as the bees in early summer, busy beneath the sunlight through the flowered meadows."

"Know first, the heaven, the earth, the main, the moon's pale orb, the starry train, are nourished by a soul, a bright intelligence, which darts its influence through the several parts and animates the whole."

"Knowing sorrow well, I learn to succor the distressed."

"Labor conquers everything."

"Learn all from one thing."

"Learn now of the treachery of the Greeks, and from one example the character of the nation may be known."

"Let me rage before I die."

"Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth."

"Let the Roman offspring be powerful, by Italian valor."

"Let us go singing as far as we go the road will be less tedious."

"Let us make, instead of war, an everlasting peace and plighted wedding. You have what you were bent upon: she burns with love; the frenzy now is in her bones. Then let us rule this people - you and I- with equal auspices."

"Let us now some nobler things! [marks the transition in a text to a more important subject]"

"Look with favor upon a bold beginning."

"Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all."

"Love conquers all things let us too surrender to Love."

"Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes."

"Meanwhile, Time is flying - flying, never to return."

"Mind moves matter."

"Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a chief part."

"My voice stuck in my throat."

"Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate."

"Natural things are not shameful."

"Nay, when at last the life has fled, and left the body cold and dead, e'en then there passes not away the painful heritage of clay."

"No day shall erase you from the memory of time"

"No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others."

"None but himself can be his parallel."

"Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction."

"Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms."

"Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes it's gay attire."

"Now I know what love is."

"Now, every field and every tree is in bloom; the woods are now in full leaf, and the year is in its highest beauty."

"Nowhere is faith secure."

"O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!"

"O farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear."

"O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed!"

"O thrice and four-times blessed !"

"O Trojans, do not trust the horse. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts."

"O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men."

"Of such importance is early training."