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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

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Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

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Plant no other tree before the vine.

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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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It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . . Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]

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He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold. [Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu coningere metam Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.]

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As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.

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He who is greedy is always in want.

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I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer. [Lat., Et idem Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus; Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

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In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

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Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.

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As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

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

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Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

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Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.

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Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

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Force without reason falls of its own weight.

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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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I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]

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Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

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