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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

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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
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
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
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
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
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
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
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible

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