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Tear thyself from delay.

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The question is yet before the court.

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In trying to be concise I become obscure.

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Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

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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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Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

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Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.

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Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

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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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Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

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Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

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He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

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Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

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Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

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Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

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Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia maestum Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum; Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]

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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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