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Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

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Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

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We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]

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A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog.

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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

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Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

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No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

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The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

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My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.

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Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

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A thousand ills require a thousand cures.

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I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

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Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

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It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

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The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

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The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

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That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

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Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.

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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

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