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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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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
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
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
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
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
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
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust

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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