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The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

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Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

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To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

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There is a middle ground in things.

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

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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

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Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

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Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

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Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

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It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

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The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

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In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

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Gold will be slave or master.

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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

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