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Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

Horace

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
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
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
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
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure

Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

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