It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.
Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]
I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
A good resolve will make any port.
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae.]
Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.
God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]
Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
There is nothing assured to mortals.
Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.
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