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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

Horace

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
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Owner Poor Thief
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
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
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
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
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People

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