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Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

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Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

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Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]

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I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.

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The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

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Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

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Anger is short-lived madness.

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Who's started has half finished.

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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

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Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

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Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

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It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

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The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

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It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

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Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

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I want to live, and die with you.

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