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Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

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The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

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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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It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

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Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

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Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.

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It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

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The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

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The mob will now and then see things in a right light.

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Remember to be calm in adversity.

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He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

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Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.

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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

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It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

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Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

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Little folks become their little fate.

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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 human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

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I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.

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