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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=475831" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Love and War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lovers all are soldiers, and Cupid has his campaigns: <br> I tell you, Atticus, lovers all are soldiers.<br>Youth is fit for war, and also fit for Venus.<br> Imagine an aged soldier, an elderly lover! <br>A general looks for spirit in his brave soldiery; <br> a pretty girl wants spirit in her companions.<br>Both stay up all night long, and each sleeps on the ground; <br> one guards his mistress's doorway, one his general's.<br>The soldier's lot requires far journeys; send his girl, <br> the zealous lover will follow her anywhere.<br>He'll cross the glowering mountains, the rivers swollen with storm; <br> he'll tread a pathway through the heaped-up snows; <br>and never whine of raging Eurus when he sets sail<br> or wait for stars propitious for his voyage.<br>Who but lovers and soldiers endure the chill of night, <br> and blizzards interspersed with driving rain? <br>The soldier reconnoiters among the dangerous foe; <br> the lover spies to learn his rival's plans.<br>Soldiers besiege strong cities; lovers, a harsh girl's home; <br> one storms town gates, the other storms house doors.<br>It's clever strategy to raid a sleeping foe<br> and slay an unarmed host by force of arms.<br>(That's how the troops of Thracian Rhesus met their doom, <br> and you, O captive steeds, forsook your master.) <br>Well, lovers take advantage of husbands when they sleep, <br> launching surprise attacks while the enemy snores.<br>To slip through bands of guards and watchful sentinels<br> is always the soldier's mission - and the lover's.<br>Mars wavers; Venus flutters: the conquered rise again, <br> and those you'd think could never fall, lie low.<br>So those who like to say that love is indolent<br> should stop: Love is the soul of enterprise.<br>Sad Achilles burns for Briseis, his lost darling: <br> Trojans, smash the Greeks' power while you may! <br>From Andromache's embrace Hector went to war; <br> his own wife set the helmet on his head; <br>and High King Agamemnon, looking on Priam's child, <br> was stunned (they say) by the Maenad's flowing hair.<br>And Mars himself was trapped in The Artificer's bonds: <br> no tale was more notorious in heaven.<br>I too was once an idler, born for careless ease; <br> my shady couch had made my spirit soft.<br>But care for a lovely girl aroused me from my sloth<br> and bid me to enlist in her campaign.<br>So now you see me forceful, in combat all night long.<br> If you want a life of action, fall in love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  - translated from the Latin by Jon Corelis</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ovid">Ovid</a><div class=q>
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 I tell you, Atticus, lovers all are soldiers.
Youth is fit for war, and also fit for Venus.
 Imagine an aged soldier, an elderly lover! 
A general looks for spirit in his brave soldiery; 
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