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He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.

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In my integrity I'll wrap me up.

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Make a good use of the present.

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Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

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It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

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Mistakes are their own instructors

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There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

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Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

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Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

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The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

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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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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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Don't long for the unripe grape.

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Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

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Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

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Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

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He is not poor who has a competency.

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By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

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He will be beloved when he is no more.

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He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.

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