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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

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What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

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Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.

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We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.

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Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

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The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

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The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

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According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

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Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.

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We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

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Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.

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It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

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The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.

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Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

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Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

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Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

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We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

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Beauty- it was a favor bestowed by the gods.

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Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.

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There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.

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Tis you, alone, can save, or give my doom.

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Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.

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One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

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All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

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You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]

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Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]

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No man provokes me with impunity.

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Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more

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Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.

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By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

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Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

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To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

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Art lies in concealing art.

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In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

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Pursuits become habits.

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

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The battle is over when the foe has fallen.

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I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

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The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.

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Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

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Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.

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Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod

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What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire. [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]

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What ignorance there is in human minds.

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Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken

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The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

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For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

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Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

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Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

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Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.

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Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci; Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi. In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit.

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We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

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Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black. [Lat., Furtum ingeniosus ad omne, Qui facere assueret, patriae non degener artis, Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.]

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Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

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A pleasing face is no small advantage.

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What is reason now was passion heretofore.

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Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

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Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]

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Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.

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