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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.  
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good ti...  
A picture is a poem without words.  
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpos...  
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pi...  
A word once uttered can never be recalled.  
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous cir...  
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and ...  
Anger is a short madness.  
As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.  
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears...  
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.  
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.  
Don't think, just do.  
Every old poem is sacred.  
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of t...  
Fidelity is the sister of justice.  
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.  
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good w...  
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must e...  
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.  
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the...  
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.  
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and th...  
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.  
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.  
He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.  
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for t...  
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.  
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!  
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.  
I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.  
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the sam...  
I teach that all men are mad.  
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story;...  
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.  
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.  
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.  
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one ha...  
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he b...  
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not ...  
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.  
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.  
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.  
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.  
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.  
Labor diligently to increase your property.  
Leave the rest to the gods.  
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine ye...  
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.  
Life is largely a matter of expectation.  
Make a good use of the present.  
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, ex...  
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.  
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be s...  
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if t...  
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.  
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.  
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinker...   Poetry
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drin...  
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.  
Now is the time for drinking, now the time to beat the earth with unfe...  
O imitators, you slavish herd!  
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.  
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.  
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the...  
Poets wish to profit or to please.  
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that f...  
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinkin...  
Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the do...  
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.  
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is...  
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.  
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.  
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quick...  
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right somet...  
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.  
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with ...  
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.  
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their t...  
The pen is the tongue of the mind.  
Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart t...  
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conc...  
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.  
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for ...  
We are free to yield to truth.  
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.  
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.  
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, ...  
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our min...  
Whatever advice you give, be short.  
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.  
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.  
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.  
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.  
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if so...  
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?  
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.  
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.  
You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is tim...  
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.  
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the rea...  
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.