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Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

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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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The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

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Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.

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Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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

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Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

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Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

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The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

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Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

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In love there are two evils: war and peace.

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An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

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There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

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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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Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

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Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

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