Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

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• Seneca:

  We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

• Publilius Syrus:

  To do two things at once is to do neither.

• Tertullian:

  Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

• Terence:

  Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

• Pliny the Elder:

  Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

• Phaedrus:

  Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

• Juvenal:

  Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

• Tiberius:

  It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

• Sextus Propertius:

  Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

• Lucretius:

  So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.