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Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.

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Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

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And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

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In trying to be concise I become obscure.

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He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

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Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

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Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

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The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

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The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium Nudus castra peto.]

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In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

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

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Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

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

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I am doubting what to do.

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Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

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Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.

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

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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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Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]

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