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July 7 - July 13, 2025
“The body seeks that which the mind has wounded with love.”
Only fools think life is like a play, with any hope of holding on to your virtue.”
“Love and fear will not mix.”
“I’m just a guest then, gazing at my darling While at your touch another takes delight?”
“Now that I know you, you’re much cheaper, lighter, And yet desire in me flares even brighter.”
“I’ve never been so foolish in my young life, I swear, Or done one thing that I’ve regretted more, Than going from you last night and leaving you alone, Trying to hide how desperately I love you.”
A woman’s cunning lasts longer than her looks.”
“And both last longer than her virtue,”
“Looks only last so long, lovers are just as bad. But a closet full of coin never made any woman cry.
“I hope he always deserves you.”
“Death is Nature’s gift. It’s better to know that suffering ends. Once we accept this life is all we have, we can make better use of it.”
“He always said there was no book so bad that some good could not be got out of it.” —Pliny the Younger, on his uncle, Pliny the Elder
“Nothing can last for all time: When the sun has shone brightly it returns to the Ocean; The moon wanes, which recently was full. Even so the fierceness of Venus often becomes a puff of wind” —Pompeii graffiti
“Whoever loves, let him flourish Let him perish who knows not love Let him perish twice over whoever forbids love”
Fortuna only turns her wheel for those who dare to ride it.
“How soft is violence?”
“Show me a man who isn’t a slave; one is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear.”
“But tears cannot put out the flame; They inflame the face and melt the spirit”
“Not always is a woman feigning love When she sighs and clings to a man in close embrace.”
“The women who have avenged”
“Perhaps you shouldn’t have discarded her so easily. There is always a price to pay for underestimating a woman.”
