| Quotes |
Topic |
| Grief | She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen. |
| Joy | Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. |
| Merriment | Be merry if you are wise. |
| Past | To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. |
| Patriotism | There are many different voice and languages, but there is but one voice of the peoples when you are declared to be the true "Father of your country." |
| Pen | The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun, Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. |
| Plagiarism | My books need no one to accuse or judge you, the page which is yours stands up against you and says, "You are a thief." |
| Proverbs | To have nothing is not poverty. |
| Proverbs | Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. |
| Proverbs | Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table. |
| Suicide | When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew, Who e'er a greater madness knew? Life to destroy for fear to die. |
| Swans | The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. |
| Undertakers | Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker' what he does as an undertaker, he used to do also as a doctor. |
| Wealth | You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become a lion, what sort of a lion would you be? |
| Wishes | You pursue, I fly, you fly, I pursue, such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, what you do not wish, I do. |
| Work | Work divided is in that manner shortened. |
| Work | Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men. |
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