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In trying to be concise I become obscure.

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While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.

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Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

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It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

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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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To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

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

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The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

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Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

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Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

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Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.

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Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

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Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

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He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

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