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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

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The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

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He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

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Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]

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Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

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The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

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Don't just think, do.

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Brighter than Parian marble.

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Wine unlocks the breast.

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It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

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The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

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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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Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.

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Nature is harmony in discord.

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While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.

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We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura.]

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Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

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Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]

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Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

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