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Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]
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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden
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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]
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Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?
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If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
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Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.
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The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.
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Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods. [Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]
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If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.
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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.
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It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.
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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
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A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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