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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

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Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
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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Destiny End Try
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
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
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
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
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle

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