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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

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An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

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All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

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

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Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

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A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

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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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Better to accept whatever happens.

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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

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He will be beloved when he is no more.

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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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Money amassed either serves us or rules us.

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The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

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Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.

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He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.

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You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

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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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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

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