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The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]
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No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
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We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it.
[Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus,
Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]
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Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.
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I am not what I once was.
[Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
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