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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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Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

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Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

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To teach is to delight.

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The question is yet before the court.

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Tear thyself from delay.

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

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

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God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

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You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

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A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

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If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

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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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The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

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A man of refined taste and judgment.

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Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

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Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

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When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

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