"The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk."
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"Do not believe hastily."
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"Nothing is swifter than our years."
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"Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine."
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"First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread."
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"Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]"
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"I can't live without you or with you."
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"The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all."
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"Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense"
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"While I am speaking the opportunity is lost."
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"It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods."
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"We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot."
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"That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting."
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"Small minds are captivated by trifles."
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"Few people want the pleasures they are free to take."
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"May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]"
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"To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all."
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"The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also."
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"Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love."
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"It is good to be taught even by an enemy"
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