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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
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
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
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
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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Essence Soul Yesterday

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