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We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

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He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

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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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In giving advice I advise you, be short.

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Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.

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I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

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Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

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The covetous man is ever in want.

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That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

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Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

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He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

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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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The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

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That best of blessings, a contented mind.

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

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

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Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

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Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

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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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