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For why do you hasten to remove things that hurt your eyes, but if anything gnaws your mind, defer the time of curing it from year to year?
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You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
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One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.
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You may turn nature out of doors with violence, but she will still return.
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As they put it in Greek, we simply don't COUNT. We consume.
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I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.
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"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.
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It is not everyone that can get to Corinth.
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We are but numbers, born to consume resources.
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Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium.
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You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.
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Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
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This retreat, so sweet—yes, believe me, so bewitching—keeps me, my friend, in sound health in September's heat.
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If he were on earth, Democritus would laugh at the sight.
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It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.
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I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.
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He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.
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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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Citizens, citizens, the first thing to acquire is money. Cash before conscience!
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For joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth to death has passed unknown.
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At times the world sees straight, but many times the world goes astray.
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
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Sky, not spirit, do they change, those who cross the sea.
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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