“I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer. [Lat., Et idem Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus; Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]”
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“In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]”
“Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.”
“These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]”
“My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.”
“No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.”
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