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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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PL15LIL1LSSYRLS20 Dumb pleiisure is rather fear than joy.Goodness means inabihty to do a wrong.It makes a wide difference whether you were bornwise or only look it.From virtue no man honourably Avithholds hislove.Where freedom has fallen,none dare freely speak.25 The life of ease is a kingdom <strong>with</strong>out the worry.Where all go WTong, the hope of remonstrance isremoved.A few are justly destroyed that more may be reformed.All virtue finds an obstacle in fear.When the accuser is judge, force, not law, has power.50 In buying others' goods, see you don't have to sellyour own.When an offence is soon corrected, sc<strong>and</strong>al commonlyoverlooks it.When the innocent is found guilty, part of his nativel<strong>and</strong> isexiled.It is honourable to conquer, bitter to crush, h<strong>and</strong>sometoforgive.Repentance follows on a hasty plan.''° sic Meyer in apparatu : invenies necesse est tua T.Ill

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