Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favorites enjoy.
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Joking aside, let us turn to serious matters. Amoto quaeramus seria ludo.Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
The same man will be loved when he is dead. Extinctus amabitur idem.
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Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.
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Don't despair. Nil desperandum.
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.
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