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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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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
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
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
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
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
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
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
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
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
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
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
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
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
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men

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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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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