He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.
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Brute force bereft of wisdom falls to ruin by its own weight. Vis consili expers mole ruit sua.
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Keep quiet. Favete linguis.
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If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief. Si vis me flere, dolendum est Primum ipsi tibi.
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The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.
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A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
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