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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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Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]
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Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
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I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
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When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.
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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
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The gods my protectors. [Lat., Di me tuentur.]
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The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
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Limbs of a dismembered poet.
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Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]
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It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
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Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
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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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In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
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Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
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In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.
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