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

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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

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Joking apart, now let us be serious.

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And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

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When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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By the favour of the heavens

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The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.

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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.

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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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Life gives nothing to man without labor.

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The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

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Half is done when the beginning is done.

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Never despair. [Nil desperandum.]

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I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

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Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]

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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

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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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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

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