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All things considered, nothing is beautiful.

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Anger is a short madness.

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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

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A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.

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Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

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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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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

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How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

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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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There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

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We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

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The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.

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What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

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Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

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Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

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Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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