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Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

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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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Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

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Poets wish to profit or to please.

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Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

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One cannot know everything.

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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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Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

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The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.

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Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

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Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

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The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

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If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

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The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat

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Limbs of a dismembered poet.

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The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

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Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

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Anger is a momentary madness.

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