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Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

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There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

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He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

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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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The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

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The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

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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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There is a middle ground in things.

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Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]

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Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.

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The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

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At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

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The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.

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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

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Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.

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All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]

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As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

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Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

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The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.

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