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Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.

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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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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.

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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

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Never despair. [Nil desperandum.]

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Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

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What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

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God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.

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The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

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Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

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Wine unlocks the breast.

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Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

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Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

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Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

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A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

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The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

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Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae.]

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Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.

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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

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