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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

Horace

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Last Poverty Wing
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
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
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
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
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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Country House People
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
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
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
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine

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