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A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

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Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

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Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

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Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

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Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

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Anger is a short madness.

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Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

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Money amassed either serves us or rules us.

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I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

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Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

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He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

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I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

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It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

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The covetous man is ever in want.

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When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

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The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium Nudus castra peto.]

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