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• In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

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  Fire, Fields, Ferns

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• The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

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  Horse, Envy, Lazy

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• Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

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  Time, Men, Years

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• What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

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  Anger, Cutting, Punishment

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• Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

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  Literature, Sullen, Modesty

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• A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

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  Humor, Matter, Jest

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• Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

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  Ocean, Heart, Firsts

  Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.5

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• Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

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  Enough, Sufficiency, Asks

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 133-36, Epistles, I. 2. 46, 1922.

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• Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

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  Death, Running, Law

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• Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

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  Heaven, May, Posse

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• Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

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  Leader, Soul, Return

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 524-25, Carmina, IV. 8, 1922.

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• Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

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  Pain, Pleasure, Despise

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• If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

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  Envy, Silence, Crow

  "Epistles", I. 17. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 690-91, 1922.

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• The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

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  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 16. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 771-72, 1922.

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• They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

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  Travel, Happy Life, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 11. 27, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 809-11, 1922.

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• For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

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  Honor, Riches, Influence

  "Satires", II. 3. 94, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

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• To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

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  Men, Favour, Court

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• Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

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  Wealth, Fortune, Nameless

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• What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

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  Men, Faces, Good Sense

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• Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

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  Strong, Freedom, 4th Of July

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• She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

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  Philosophy, Educational, Words Of Wisdom

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• What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

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  Country, Country Love, Able

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 141-42, Carmina II. 16. 19, 1922.

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• The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

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  Gay, Sorrow, Sorrowful

  "Epistles", I. 18. 89, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 733-36, 1922.

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• Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

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  Anger, Men, Literature

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• The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

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  Art, Greek, Genius

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