"It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent."
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"There is no small pleasure in pure water."
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"Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility."
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"Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay."
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"Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured."
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"Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods."
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"God himself helps those who dare."
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"Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget."
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"He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming."
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"My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms."
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"God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars."
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"Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]"
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"Few love what they may have."
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"You will be safest in the middle."
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"Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free."
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"If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty."
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"The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found. [Lat., Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit; Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.]"
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"It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight."
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"Love is a kind of military service"
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"Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]"
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