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We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

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A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

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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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Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]

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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

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The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

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He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

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Death is the last limit of all things.

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The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

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Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

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What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

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

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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

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A man of refined taste and judgment.

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Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

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