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Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

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Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

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Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

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We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

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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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Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

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Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

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There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

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Be smart, drink your wine.

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A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

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Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.

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And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

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Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

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Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

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The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

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Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

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If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.

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The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

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