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author   The Aeneid (c. 29 B.C.)   It is easy to go down into
Hell; Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; There's
the rub, the task.  If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.
Fortune favours the brave.  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.
Woman is ever fickle and changeable.  What each man does will
shape his trial and fortune.  Accursed greed for gold, to what
dost thou not drive the heart of man.  To extend one's fame by
deeds, that is the work of valor.  There are two gates of Sleep:
the one is said to be of horn, through it an easy exit is given
to true Shades; the other is made of polished ivory, perfect
glittering, but through that way the Spirits send false dreams
into the world above.  They can because they think they can.
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