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.
Virgil
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- Age carries all things away, even the mind.
- Age steals away all things, even the mind.
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- I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.