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Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

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Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

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The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.

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Fidelity is the sister of justice.

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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

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Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

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Hatched in the same nest.

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Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

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Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.

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Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

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No, but you're wrong now, and always will be.

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The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

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Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

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Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

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The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.

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Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

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I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]

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