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Horace

The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
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
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
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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