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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
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Faults are soon copied.
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It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
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Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
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In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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With silence favor me.
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The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
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I will not add another word.
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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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The covetous man is ever in want.
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
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To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
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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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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
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