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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

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Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

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If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]

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A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

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Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

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I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]

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The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]

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It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

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Love, and a cough, are not concealed.

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Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

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Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]

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Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

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Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!

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I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style.

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Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

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Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

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A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

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The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.

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The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]

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Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.]

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I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

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Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

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Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]

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There is a divinity within our breast.

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The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found. [Lat., Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit; Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.]

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Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

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Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. [Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]

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Love is a kind of military service

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Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

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Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

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The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

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The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.

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The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]

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As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

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A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

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Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling.

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That you may be beloved, be amiable.

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Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

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Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]

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The mind alone can not be exiled. [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]

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He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.

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Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love; as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

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Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

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Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

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The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

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When a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads, And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.

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