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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

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The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

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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 ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

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Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone.]

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When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

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Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.

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The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

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We are deceived by the appearance of right.

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The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

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Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

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A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.

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

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The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

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We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

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There is a middle ground in things.

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Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

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Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

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Better to accept whatever happens.

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

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