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For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

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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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And yet more bright Shines out the Julian star, As moon outglows each lesser light. [Lat., Micat inter omnes Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes Luna minores.]

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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

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Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

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

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Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods. [Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]

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You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

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He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

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They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

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Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

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He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

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Money amassed either serves us or rules us.

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I was what you are, you will be what I am.

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You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

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Nature is harmony in discord.

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If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

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