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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

Horace

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Men Time Year
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Owner Poor Thief
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
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

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