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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

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Poets wish to profit or to please.

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Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

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There is moderation in everything.

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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

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There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

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If a better system's thine, Impart it frankly, or make use of mine.

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The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]

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Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.

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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

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What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

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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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What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

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The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

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We are free to yield to truth.

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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

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In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

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