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That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

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A gift in time of need is most acceptable.

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What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

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The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

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The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found. [Lat., Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit; Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.]

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Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

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It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

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Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.

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Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

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From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

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There is no small pleasure in pure water.

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Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

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When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and live Without a fear of evil yet to come.

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It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

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I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.

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Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.

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A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

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The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

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