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The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

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It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

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Those that are little, little things suit.

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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]

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The covetous man is ever in want.

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?

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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

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Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

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Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

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One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

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If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

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In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

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Gold will be slave or master.

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

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He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.

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