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Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and_x000D_ whatever days fortune will give, count them_x000D_ as profit.

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

Cease to ask what the morrow _x000D_will bring forth, _x000D_and set down as gain_x000D_each day that fortune grants.

Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt._x000D_(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,_x000D_The surest guard is innocence: _x000D_None knew, till guilt created fear, _x000D_What darts or poisoned arrows were

I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.