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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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Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

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By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!

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God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

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When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

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And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

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The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

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Never despair. [Nil desperandum.]

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Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]

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The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

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Gold will be slave or master.

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When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

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He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

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Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

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Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

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The grammarians are arguing.

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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

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Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

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Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]

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