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They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
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Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]
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Be a gentleman farmer.
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Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime another a crown.
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Integrity is praised, and starves.
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Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Nature and wisdom always say the same.
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Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast.
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Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.
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Who is to guard the guards themselves?
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Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
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Now we suffer the evils of a long peace luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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