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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Men Time Year
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
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
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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Country House People
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
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
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment

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