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The weakest goes to the wall.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Nature made the fields and man the cities.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
[Lat., Idem Accio quod Titio jus esto.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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A fault is fostered by concealment.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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A feeble dart short of its mark.
Topic: Proverbs
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A fickle and capricious woman.
Topic: Proverbs
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A woman the leader of the enterprise.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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All things deteriorate in time.
Topic: Proverbs
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And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Cares deny all rest to weary limbs.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Endure the present, and watch for better things.
Topic: Proverbs
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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Every man makes a god of his own desire.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Fortune favours the bold.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Fury itself supplies arms.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only
knew the pleasures which surround you!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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He enters the port with a full sail.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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He follows his father, but with shorter strides.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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He subdues their rising passion and soothes their anger by soft
remonstrance.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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He talks nonsense.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime--turn then your sword
on me.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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His sickness increases from the remedies applied to cure it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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I shudder when relating it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a
chief part.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the
unfortunate.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have
passed!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Of such importance is early training.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his
grief.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essays Morall
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The weakest goes to the wall.
Topic: Weakness
Source: Essays Morall
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