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The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

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You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

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The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.

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Life's brief span [vitae summa brevis] forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

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Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

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Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away)

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Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

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Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.)

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A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. Work

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.

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Anger is a short madness. Anger

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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

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