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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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Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

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He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

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A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

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Get money first; virtue comes after.

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Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

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We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]

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Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

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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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Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

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Busy idleness urges us on.

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

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Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

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Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

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A man of refined taste and judgment.

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The grammarians are arguing.

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