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Whatever advice you give, be short.

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Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

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Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

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There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

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In my integrity I'll wrap me up.

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Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

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

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Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

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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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I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

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Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

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Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

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Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

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When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

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Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

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The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat

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It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . . Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]

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For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

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