In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

Horace
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  3. What you can't get is just what suits you. - French Proverb

  4. The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality. - Toni Cade Bambara

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  1. Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith

  2. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

  3. He who is greedy is always in want

  4. Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shinethe joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are...

  5. It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends...

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