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The fool knows after he has suffered.
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Money is life to us wretched mortals.
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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
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In work there is no shame shame is in the idleness.
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Toil is no source of shame idleness is shame.
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Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
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Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
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Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.
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Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.
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The Gods rank work above virtues.
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A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.
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Timeliness is best in all matters.
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I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
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Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
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