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We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

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The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]

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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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No one is content with his own lot.

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The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

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Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

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Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

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

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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

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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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Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?

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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

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The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.

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Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

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He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

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The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

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To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]

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