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When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

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Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

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Books have their destinies.

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I want to live, and die with you.

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

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Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

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Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

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Life gives nothing to man without labor.

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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

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The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.

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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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Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

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Live mindful of how brief your life is.

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There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

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Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

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He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

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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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Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

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We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

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