Fidelity is the sister of justice.
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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Horace

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Horace

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
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He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
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He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
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He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
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He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
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He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
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He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
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I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
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I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
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I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
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I teach that all men are mad.
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If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
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If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
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In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
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In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
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