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Those who covet much suffer from the want.

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Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

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Don't carry logs into the forest.

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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

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Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

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The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

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To drink away sorrow.

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I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

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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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It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

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What has not wasting time impaired?

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When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

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It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

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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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High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

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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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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

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