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Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

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The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

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All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

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Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

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To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

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To know all things is not permitted.

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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

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Punishment follows close on crime.

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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

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Little folks become their little fate.

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He can afford to be a fool.

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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

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Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

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The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

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Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

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Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]

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False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

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