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Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men. - [Mediocrity] Men born only to eat. - [Proverbs] Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest to use it; a mistress if thou knowest not. - [Money] Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner. - [Money : Proverbs] Most virtue lies between two vices. - [Virtue] My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were. - [Proverbs] Never was anything so inconsistent. - [Proverbs] Never without a shilling in my purse. - [Proverbs] No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid. - [Proverbs] No man is born without faults. - [Proverbs] No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least. - [Vice] Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion. - [Proverbs] Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly. - [Remorse] Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted. - [Proverbs] Not if you burst yourself will you equal him. - [Proverbs] Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness. - [Admiration] Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure. - [Proverbs] Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs. - [Proverbs] Nothing is achieved without toil. - [Proverbs] Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it. - [Proverbs] Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe. - [Proverbs] O imitators, a servile race, how often have your attacks roused my bile and often my laughter! - [Imitation] On day is pressed on by another. - [Time] One deviates to the right, another to the left; the error is the same with all, but it deceives them in different ways. - [Error] Opportune times for speaking. - [Proverbs] Displaying page 8 of 25 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
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