He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.
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Happy he who far from business persuits
Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands
With oxen of his own breeding
Having no slavish yoke about his neck.
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Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
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Whatever your advice, make it brief.
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To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
[Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
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We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
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