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Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

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If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

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Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

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Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.

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For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

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We are deceived by the appearance of right.

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Joking apart, now let us be serious.

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All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

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Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.

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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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The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

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I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

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He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

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Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.

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I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]

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Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.

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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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Live mindful of how brief your life is.

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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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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

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