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Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.

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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

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What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

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Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

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What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

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The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.

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Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money. [Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]

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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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He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

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He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

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A poem is like a painting.

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The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.

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It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

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The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

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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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What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu? Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]

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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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The words can not return.

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