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| But for her native ornament of hair; |
| Which in a simple knot was tied above, |
| Sweet negligence, unheeded bait of love! |
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| | Nations and empires flourish and decay, |
| By turns command, and in their turns obey. |
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| | She that weds well will wisely match her love, |
| Nor be below her husband nor above. |
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| A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain. | 4 |
| A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. | 5 |
| A pious fraud. | 6 |
| A spirit superior to every weapon. | 7 |
| Agreeing to differ. | 8 |
| Alas! how difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt. | 9 |
| All human things hang on a slender thread: the strongest fall with a sudden crash. | 10 |
| All things can corrupt perverse minds. | 11 |
| An evil life is one kind of death. | 12 |
| And now have I finished a work which neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor steel, nor all-consuming time can destroy. Welcome the day which can destroy only my physical man in ending my uncertain life. In my better part I shall be raised to immortality above the lofty stars, and my name shall never die. | 13 |
| Any one can be rich in promises. | 14 |
| As long as you are fortunate you will have many friends, but if the times become cloudy you will be alone. | 15 |
| As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions. | 16 |
| As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. | 17 |
| Beauty is a frail good. | 18 |
| Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. | 19 |
| Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. | 20 |
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| Chance is always powerful; let your hook always be cast. In a pool where you least expect it there will be a fish. | 21 |
| Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once. | 22 |
| Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. | 23 |
| Deadly poisons are often concealed under sweet honey. | 24 |
| Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. | 25 |
| Despotic conscience rules our hopes and fears. | 26 |
| Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack. | 27 |
| Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. | 28 |
| Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. | 29 |
| Envy assails the noblest; the winds howl around the highest peaks. | 30 |
| Envy feeds only on the living. | 31 |
| Even pleasure cloys without variety. | 32 |
| Every delay that postpones our joys is long. | 33 |
| Every one wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. | 34 |
| Excessive love in loathing ever ends. | 35 |
| Fortune and Love befriend the bold. | 36 |
| Giving requires good sense. | 37 |
| God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars. | 38 |
| Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. | 39 |
| He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire. | 40 |
| He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. | 41 |
| Heaven makes sport of human affairs and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next. | 42 |
| I see the right, and I approve it too; condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. | 43 |
| If God be appeased, I cannot be wretched. | 44 |
| If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts. | 45 |
| If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. | 46 |
| If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates. | 47 |
| In an easy cause any man may be eloquent. | 48 |
| In war the olive branch of peace is of use. | 49 |
| It is a pleasure appropriate to man for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. | 50 |
| It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. | 51 |
| It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched. | 52 |
| It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. | 53 |
| Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. | 54 |
| Love is a thing full of anxious fears. | 55 |
| Love is an affair of credulity. | 56 |
| Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish. | 57 |
| Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. | 58 |
| May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. | 59 |
| Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay. | 60 |
| Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward. | 61 |
| Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. | 62 |
| Nothing is stronger than habit. | 63 |
| O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men! | 64 |
| Ossa on Pelion. | 65 |
| Pursuits become habits. | 66 |
| Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect. | 67 |
| Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. | 68 |
| She half consents who silently denies. | 69 |
| Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation. | 70 |
| Simplicity is a jewel rarely found. | 71 |
| Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look white, and white look black. | 72 |
| Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who doest soothe the hearts of men wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labor. | 73 |
| Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard. | 74 |
| Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. | 75 |
| Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. | 76 |
| Tears are sometimes as weighty as words. | 77 |
| Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. | 78 |
| That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo. | 79 |
| That you may be beloved, be amiable. | 80 |
| The brave find a home in every land. | 81 |
| The burden becomes light which is cheerfully borne. | 82 |
| The cause is hidden, but the result is known. | 83 |
| The deeds of men never escape the gods. | 84 |
| The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. | 85 |
| The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver. | 86 |
| The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man. | 87 |
| The gods see the deeds of the righteous. | 88 |
| The love of country is more powerful than reason itself. | 89 |
| The love of fame gives an immense stimulus. | 90 |
| The man who falls in love will find plenty of occupation. | 91 |
| The mind alone can not be exiled. | 92 |
| The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports; but we are always ready to believe a scandal. | 93 |
| The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. | 94 |
| The poet’s labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind. | 95 |
| The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. | 96 |
| The silent countenance often speaks. | 97 |
| The ungovernable passion for wealth. | 98 |
| The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. | 99 |
| The wild boar is often held by a small dog. | 100 |
| The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. | 101 |
| The wounded limb shrinks even from the gentlest touch, and to the nervous the smallest shadow excites alarm. | 102 |
| There are persons always standing ready to believe a scandal. | 103 |
| There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure. | 104 |
| There is a divinity within our breast. | 105 |
| There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high. | 106 |
| There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties. | 107 |
| There is no need of words; believe facts. | 108 |
| There is no small pleasure in pure water. | 109 |
| There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet. | 110 |
| There is nothing in the world that remains unchanged. All things are in perpetual flux, and every shadow is seen to move. | 111 |
| Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. | 112 |
| Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. | 113 |
| Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. | 114 |
| Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. | 115 |
| Time is generally the best doctor. | 116 |
| Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly. | 117 |
| Time steals on and escapes us, like the swift river that glides on with rapid stream. | 118 |
| Time that devours all things. | 119 |
| ’Tis you, alone, can save, or give my doom. | 120 |
| To be instructed in the arts softens the manners and makes men gentle. | 121 |
| To be loved, be lovable. | 122 |
| To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets. | 123 |
| To be thoroughly imbued with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct. | 124 |
| To wish for death is a coward’s part. | 125 |
| To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep. | 126 |
| We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. | 127 |
| We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. | 128 |
| We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot. | 129 |
| What ignorance there is in human minds. | 130 |
| What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. | 131 |
| 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. | 132 |
| What is reason now was passion heretofore. | 133 |
| When time has assuaged the wounds of the mind, he who unseasonably reminds us of them, opens them afresh. | 134 |
| Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death. | 135 |
| Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone. | 136 |
| Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years. | 137 |
| Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer. | 138 |
| You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. | 139 |
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