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Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
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
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
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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Last Poverty Wing
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
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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