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No master can make me swear blind obedience.

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

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Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

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Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

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Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

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Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

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Be smart, drink your wine.

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It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . . Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]

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It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

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The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

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What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?

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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

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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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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

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Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

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Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

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The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

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He who is greedy is always in want.

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

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