The body oppressed by excesses, bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine Spirit we had been endowed with.
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Alas, the fleeting years slip by. Eheu fugaces labuntur anni.
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Limbs of a dismembered poet. Disiecti membra poetae.
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The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.
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