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It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.

Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies.

Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

A eulogist of past times.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

Like Theon .

Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places.

He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him.

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.

Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

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