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All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]
The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.
I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]
Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]
Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.
I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]
Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.
This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]
Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.
Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.
Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.