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Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

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As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

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Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

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Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

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Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

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Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

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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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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

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What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

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The same night awaits us all.

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A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

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Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

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Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

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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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In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

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Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

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

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In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]

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