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“I teach that all men are mad.”
“Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.”
“No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.”
“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.”
“O imitators, you slavish herd!”
“When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.”
“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.”
“He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.”
“A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.”
“Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.”
“Natales grate numeras?(Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)”
“You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.”
“One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.”
“In love there are two evils: war and peace.”
“Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.”
“He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.”
“The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.”
“Life is largely a matter of expectation.”
“Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.”
“Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.”