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Things fit only to give weight to smoke.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

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The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.
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Check disease in its approach.
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And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.
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But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our years, each just beyond our grasp.
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For Yesterday was once To-morrow.
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He who conquers, endures.
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Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!
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Live according to your income.
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Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]
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The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.
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That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view. [Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo! Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]
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He conquers who endures.
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Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.
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Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.
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Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear, But what thou art.
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Oh, what a void there is in things.
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It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, There goes the man. [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]
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Each man has his fancy.
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The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.
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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
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