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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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Discarde Perceive Return

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

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