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However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

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If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

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If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year. [Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]

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All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

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Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

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He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

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The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat

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The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

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Don't just think, do.

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No, but you're wrong now, and always will be.

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O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?

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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

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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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Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

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The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

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While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

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Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

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I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

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