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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
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
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
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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Authorship Care Write
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet

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