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In giving advice I advise you, be short.

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Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]

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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

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No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

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Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

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In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

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Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

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Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

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Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

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Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

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Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

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Punishment follows close on crime.

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A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

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Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

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Half is done when the beginning is done.

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To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

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