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He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

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The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

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Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

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Music is an incitement to love.

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The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

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The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.

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I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

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Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

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Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]

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Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

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He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold. [Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu coningere metam Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.]

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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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Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.

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Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

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In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

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Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

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In love there are two evils: war and peace.

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