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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.
Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.
You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.
It is not permitted that we should know everything.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.
Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.
Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.
Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.
Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.
It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]
I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.
Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.
The mob will now and then see things in a right light.
Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.