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"O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, agricolas!"
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Insignis venatorum stultitia, et supervacania cura eorum, qui dum nimium venationi insistunt, ipsi abjecta omni humanitate in feras degenerant, ut Acteon, &c. 1873.
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Nisi certo constet nimium semen aut sanguinem causam esse, aut amor praecesserit, aut, &c. 2985.
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But consider all those other unknown, concealed happinesses, which a poor man hath (I call them unknown, because they be not acknowledged in the world's esteem, or so taken) O fortunatos nimium bona si sua norint: happy they are in the meantime if they would take notice of it, make use, or apply it to themselves.
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Saepius accidit melancholicis, ut nimium exsiccato cerebro vigiliis attenuentur.
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Amicis nostris Rhodi dicito, ne nimium rideant, aut nimium tristes sint.
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O nimium faciles qui tristia crimina cæal [Editor: illegible character]
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Satis est dives qui pane non indiget; nimium potens qui servire non cogitur.
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Carpunt alii Platonicam majestatem quod amori nimium indulserit, Dicearchus et alii; sed male.
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Magnis tamen excidit ausis is a degree of praise which will always attend a noble and shining temerity, and a much better sign in a young fellow, than serpere humi, tutus nimium timidusque procellae.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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