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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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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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Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.

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An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

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Don't just put it off and think about it!

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Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.

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Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

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Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

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The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.

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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

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It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

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Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

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Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

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Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

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The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

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Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

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