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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

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And yet more bright Shines out the Julian star, As moon outglows each lesser light. [Lat., Micat inter omnes Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes Luna minores.]

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Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

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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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Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.

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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

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Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

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Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]

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He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

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Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

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Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

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Joking apart, now let us be serious.

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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

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In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]

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In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

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He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

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Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

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Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

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