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“The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.”

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Ovid

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 right man's brow.

Death

Ovid

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

Love

Ovid

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Beauty

Ovid

Art lies by its own artifice.

Art