Faults are soon copied.

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"He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

Carpe Diem

Let him live under the open sky, and dangerously.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

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Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium.

Surely a Man may speak Truth with a smiling countenance.

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers

one night awaits us all, and the path of death must be trodden once

Aequa lege Necessitas
Sortitur insignes et imos;
Omne capax movet urna nomen.

Caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.

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