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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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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve

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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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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