You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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