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The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

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The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

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Leave the rest to the gods.

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I teach that all men are mad.

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

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It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

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Fidelity is the sister of justice.

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

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He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

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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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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

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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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