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In the next place, it is false that those that have little to do are easy in mind.
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as the strings of the bow and lyre are alternately tightened and relaxed, so is it with the order of the world; in human affairs there is nothing pure and without alloy
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it seems to me that the Muses aided our old writers to complete their finest and most esteemed works by calling in exile as a fellow-worker
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It is better therefore to listen patiently to a friend's rebuke, for if he should afterwards do wrong himself and so need rebuke, he has set you the example of freedom of speech.
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nature makes us free and unrestrained, but we bind and confine immure and force ourselves into small and scanty space