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Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.

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Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.

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I am doubting what to do.

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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

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The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath. [Lat., Quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]

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Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

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What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

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Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

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Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

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Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

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You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises, . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]

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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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Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.

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

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Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

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Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.

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And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

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