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For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

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Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

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Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.

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No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

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We are free to yield to truth.

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Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

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I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]

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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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All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

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We are all gathered to the same fold.

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My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

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It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

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God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

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Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

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He who is greedy is always in want.

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Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

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Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?

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Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

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To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

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