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We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.

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Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

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A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

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Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

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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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All things considered, nothing is beautiful.

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Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

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Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

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Never without a shilling in my purse.

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Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!

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Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

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The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

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Anger is a short madness.

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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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Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

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Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

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Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

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Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

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Don't long for the unripe grape.

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