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The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

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What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

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Drawing is the true test of art.

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He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

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Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae.]

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I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

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Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

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The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

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In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

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The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat

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Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

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Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

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

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Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money. [Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]

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Words challenge eternity.

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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.

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Fidelity is the sister of justice.

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Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

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Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

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