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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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Death King Tower
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

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