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When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

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Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]

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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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Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.

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If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

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Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

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O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?

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It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

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Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

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Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

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Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.

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Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.

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He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

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He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

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Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

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Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.

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