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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it
It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]
Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.
He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.
I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.
To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.
Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.
Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.