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No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.
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He who is greedy is always in want.
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That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.
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To drink away sorrow.
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That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.
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Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.
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Whatever you teach, be brief what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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Who guides below, and rules above, The great disposer, and the mighty king Than He none greater, next Him none, That can be, is, or was.
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In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.
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Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.
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What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.
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Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
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In trying to be concise I become obscure.
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