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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

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Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]

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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

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I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

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Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

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The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

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Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

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In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.

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If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

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Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

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It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

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It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

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Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

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Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

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Every old poem is sacred.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!

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