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The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

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Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

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A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

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A picture is a poem without words

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Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

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Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.

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I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

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Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

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One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

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It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

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I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer. [Lat., Et idem Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus; Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

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Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

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Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

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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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Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

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The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

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Let Apella the Jew believe it.

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