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Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

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The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

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False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

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Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

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Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

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Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?

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Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

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It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

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Don't carry logs into the forest.

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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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However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

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O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]

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He will be beloved when he is no more.

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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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Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.

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Gold will be slave or master.

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A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

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