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You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

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Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

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Words challenge eternity.

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In trying to be concise I become obscure.

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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

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He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

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In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

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Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

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

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A pauper in the midst of wealth.

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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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And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

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He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

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Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

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There is measure in all things.

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A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus.]

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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

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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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