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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

Horace

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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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
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
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
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
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
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
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
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
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

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