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Your Prayer Must Be For A Healthy Mind In A Sound Body. Ask For A Brave Soul That Has No Fear Of Death, Deems Length Of Life The Least Of Nature's Gifts And Is Able To Bear Any Kind Of Sufferings, Knows Neither Wrath Nor Desire And Believes The Woes And Hard Labors Of Hercules Better Than The Loves And Feasts And Downy Cushions Of Sardanapalus. Reveal What You Are Able To Give Yourself; The Only Path To A Life Of Tranquility Lies Through Virtue.

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Your Prayer Must Be For A Healthy Mind In A Sound Body. Ask For A Brave Soul That Has No Fear Of Death, Deems Length Of Life The Least Of Nature's Gifts And Is Able To Bear Any Kind Of Sufferings, Knows Neither Wrath Nor Desire And Believes The Woes And Hard Labors Of Hercules Better Than The Loves And Feasts And Downy Cushions Of Sardanapalus. Reveal What You Are Able To Give Yourself; The Only Path To A Life Of Tranquility Lies Through Virtue.

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Tears Ready To Do Duty At A Minute's Notice.

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Nothing Is More Intolerable Than A Wealthy Woman.

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One Gets A Cross For His Crime, The Other A Crown.

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Remorse Is The Fruit Of Crime.

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Those Things Please More, Which Are More Expensive.

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Give Them Bread And Circuses And They Will Never Revolt

The Grape Gains Its Purple Tinge By Looking At Another Grape. [lat., Uvaque Conspecta Livorem Ducit Ab Uva.]

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A Pauper Traveller Will Sing Before A Beggar.

The Same Dish Cooked Over And Over Again Wears Out The Irksome Life Of The Teacher.

Let Him Love None And Be By None Beloved!

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It Is Unmistakable Madness To Live In Poverty Only To Die Rich.

What Is More Cruel Than A Tyrant's Ear?

Cheerless Poverty Has No Harder Trial Than This, That It Makes Men The Subject Of Ridicule. [lat., Nil Habet Infelix Paupertas Durius In Se Quam Quod Ridiculos Homines Facit.]

All Arts His Own, The Hungry Greekling Counts; And Bid Him Mount The Skies, The Skies He Mounts.

It Is Sheer Folly When All Is Gone To Lose Even One's Passage Money.

The Traveler Without Money Will Sing Before The Robber. [lat., Cantabit Vacuus Coram Latrone Viator.]

Nothing Is More Audacious Than These Women When Detected; They Assume Anger, And Take Courage From The Very Crime Itself.

Led On By Impulse, And Blind And Ungovernable Desires.

Travelers With Naught Sing In The Robber's Face

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The Thirst After Fame Is Greater Than That After Virtue; For Who Embraces Virtue If You Take Away Its Rewards?

The Examples Of Vice At Home Corrupt Us More Quickly And Easily Than Others, Since They Steal Into Our Minds Under The Highest Authority.

I Will Have This Done, So I Order It Done; Let My Will Replace Reasoned Judgement.

Few Tyrants Go Down To The Infernal Regions By A Natural Death.

From Where Can Your Authority And License As A Parent Come From, When You Who Are Old, Do Worse Things?

Every Great House Is Full Of Haughty Servants.

Rare Is The Union Of Beauty And Purity. [lat., Rara Est Adeo Concordia Formae Atque Pudicitiae.]

Virture Offers The Only Path In This Life That Leads To Tranquility.

For He, Who Gave This Vast Machine To Roll, Breathed Life In Then, In Us A Reasoning Soul; That Kindred Feelings Might Our State Improve, And Mutual Wants Conduct To Mutual Love.

Dare To Do Something Worth Of Exile And Prison If You Mean To Be Anybody. Virtue Is Praised And Left To Freeze. [lat., Aude Aliquid Brevibus Gyaris Et Carcere Dignum Si Vis Esse Aliquis. Probitas Laudatur Et Alget.]

An Undying Hatred, And A Wound Never To Be Healed.

Whatever Guilt Is Perpetrated By Some Evil Prompting, Is Grievous To The Author Of The Crime. This Is The First Punishment Of Guilt That No One Who Is Guilty Is Acquitted At The Judgment Seat Of His Own Conscience.

Here We All Live In A State Of Ambitious Poverty.

A Man's Word Is Believed Just To The Extent Of The Wealth In His Coffers Stored.

Sit Mens Sana In Corpore Sano (a Healthy Mind In A Healthy Body)

Lost Money Is Bewailed With Deeper Sighs Than Friends, Or Kindred, And With Louder Cries.

The Pupil Will Eclipse His Tutor, I Warrant.

We Do Not Commonly Find Men Of Superior Sense Amongst Those Of The Highest Fortune.

One Man Meets An Infamous Punishment For That Crime Which Confers A Diadem On Others.

Many Commit The Same Crime With A Very Different Result. One Bears A Cross For His Crime; Another A Crown.

Everything In Rome Has Its Price.

Avarice Increases With The Increasing Pile Of Gold.

The Fisherman Could Perhaps Be Bought For Less Than The Fish.

The Grape Becomes Tinted From The Grape It Comes In Contact With.

Drooping Along The Ground The Vine Misses Its Widowed Elm.

When Great Assurance Accompanies A Bad Undertaking, Such Is Often Mistaken For Confiding Sincerity By The World At Large.

Astrology Reveals The Will Of The Gods.

One Globe Seemed All Too Small For The Youthful Alexander.

Youthful Arrogance

Honesty Is Praised And Left In The Cold.

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