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"Every land is to the brave his country, as to the fish the sea, as to the bird any open void."
[Omne solum forti patria est, ut piscibus aequor, ut volucri vacuo quicquid in orbe patet.]
Ovid, Fasti, Book I, lines 493-494.

Moushumi — Alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka9o10nMwWI

"Sibyl:— We’re squandering hours in weeping. Here is the place where the road subdivides into two distinct
pathways. This one, the right, leads up past the fortress of Great Dis: it’s our route Straight to Elysium now.
But the left marches those who are evil to their torments, to Tartarus, dungeon for all the unrighteous."
[Nox ruit, Aenea; nos flendo ducimus horas. Hic locus est, partis ubi se via findit in ambas: dextera quae Ditis
magni sub moenia tendit, hac iter Elysium nobis; at laeva malorum exercet poenas et ad impia Tartara mittit.]
Virgil, Aeneid, Book VI, l. 539-543 [Oh gods! Pay the Greeks back in kind, if my prayer for justice is righteous.]

"All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens."
William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, Scene 3, lines 279-280 [John of Gaunt to exiled Bolingbroke].

"Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life: What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist.

Pete Bellis & Tommy — Treat Me Right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMPOmYONwsY

"Courtesan Bacchis:— So long as I had the opportunity, I found him to be kind, easy, and good-natured."
[Ego dum illo licitum est usa sum benigno et lepido et comi.]
Terence, Hecyra (The Mother-In-Law), Act V, Scene 3, line 837 [Success often depends on a third attempt.]

"Leave thy bride alone: Go, leave her with her maiden mates to play At sports more harmless, till the break of day."
John Dryden, The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus (Eighteenth Idyllium of Theocritus), lines 22-24.

"Flattery sits in the parlour, when plain dealing is kicked out of doors."
Thomas Fuller, Proverbs, #1552, 1732 [Aveline needs Isabela to assist.]

Aveline shall catch this fop, as long as he gets in one shot. Then he will happily leave to handle a rebel mother.

"He'd be sharper than a serpent's tooth, if he wasn't as dull as ditch water. Look at him. There's a pretty object
for a parent's eyes!" Assuredly, in his worse than swinish state (for swine at least fatten on their guzzling, and
make themselves good to eat), he was a pretty object for any eyes."
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, Chapter 10 Scouts out, 1865.