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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

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Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Character Consistent Last
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
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
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
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
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

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