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Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.
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A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
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Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician, painter, trainer, soothsayer, rope-dancer, physician, magician—he knows everything. Tell the hungry little Greek to go to heaven; he'll go.
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An inveterate and incurable itch for writing besets many, and grows old in their sick hearts.
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The misfortunes of poverty carry with them nothing harder to bear than that it makes men ridiculous.
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They do not easily rise out of obscurity whose talents straitened circumstances obstruct at home.
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Only two things does he [the modern citizen] anxiously wish for—bread and circuses.
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All the doings of mankind, their wishes, fears, anger, pleasures, joys, and varied pursuits, form the motley subject of my book.
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Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.
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If nature refuses, indignation will produce verses.
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Count it the greatest sin to prefer mere existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.
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Trust me no tortures which the poets feign
Can match the fierce unutterable pain
He feels, who night and day devoid of rest
Carries his own accuser in his breast.
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But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow.
[Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]
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Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.
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O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
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Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
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For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.
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Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.
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Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
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Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.
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The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.
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The abject pleasure of an abject mind
And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind.
[Lat., Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]
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All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.
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Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!
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The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
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