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He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

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Gold will be slave or master.

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As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

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Remember to be calm in adversity.

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Humble things become the humble.

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

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

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Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

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Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo.]

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In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

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Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

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Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

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Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

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He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

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Amiability shines by its own light.

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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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A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

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The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

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Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

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