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"Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies."
"The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness."
"Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)"
"If thou wouldst marry wisely marry thine equal."
"Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery."
"And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its end; the book is mine, None shall unwrite these words: nor angry Jove, Nor war, nor fire, nor flood, Nor venomous time that eats our lives away. Then let that morning come, as come it will, When this disguise I carry shall be no more, And all the treacherous years of life undone, And yet my name shall rise to heavenly music, The deathless music of the circling stars. As long as Rome is the Eternal City These lines shall echo from the lips of men, As long as poetry speaks truth on earth, That immortality is mine to wear."
"Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you."
"Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots."
"The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field and our neighbor's cow gives more milk."
"Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer."