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Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.

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You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

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What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.

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Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.

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Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

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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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Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

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Humble things become the humble.

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Brighter than Parian marble.

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In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

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

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What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

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Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

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Nothing is swifter than rumor.

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Gold will be slave or master.

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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

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In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

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