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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

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Better to accept whatever happens.

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

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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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There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

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The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

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I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

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Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

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Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

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Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

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When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

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He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

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If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

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The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

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There is moderation in everything.

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The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]

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She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

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