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Gold will be slave or master.

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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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There is measure in all things.

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Hatched in the same nest.

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He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

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Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

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Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.

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Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

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Summer treads on heels of spring.

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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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Nothing is swifter than rumor.

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Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

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It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

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Anger is a short madness.

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Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.

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What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

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Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

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Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

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Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

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At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

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