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Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
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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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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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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
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Leave the rest to the gods.
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Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
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Labor diligently to increase your property.
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It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
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It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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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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It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
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In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
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In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
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If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
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If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
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I will not add another word.
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I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
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I strive to be brief, and become obscure.
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I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
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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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He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
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He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
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He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
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