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Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

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The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.

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There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

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Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

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I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]

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The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

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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 gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

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He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

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Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

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The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

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Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.

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Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

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In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

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Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.

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

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That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

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The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.

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