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If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.

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Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo.]

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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

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Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

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It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

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Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.

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Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

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Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

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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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Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

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No master can make me swear blind obedience.

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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

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One cannot know everything.

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Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

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

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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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