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The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

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Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

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Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

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At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

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Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

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Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

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Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

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Who guides below, and rules above, The great disposer, and the mighty king; Than He none greater, next Him none, That can be, is, or was.

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O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]

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In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

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It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . . Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]

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

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If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

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Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

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Work at it night and day.

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The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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