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In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.

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Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]

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They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.

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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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

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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

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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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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

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Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

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Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

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The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

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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It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

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He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]

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Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

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Money amassed either serves us or rules us.

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

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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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The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

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