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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

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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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
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
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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Death King Tower
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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Discarde Perceive Return
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
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

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