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A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

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No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

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Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

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Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

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You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

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To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

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Envy is not to be conquered but by death.

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Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

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I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]

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If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

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It is grievous to be caught.

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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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Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

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Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

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There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

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While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

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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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