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Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

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The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

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We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.

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The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

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Keep a mid course between two extremes.

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The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

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By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

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What ignorance there is in human minds.

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Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

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Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.

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Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

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An injury may prove a blessing.

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That which never has been, never is, and never will be.

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This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.

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The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]

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Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

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Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.

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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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In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

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