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Remember to be calm in adversity.

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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
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
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
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
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
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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Depress People Think
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect

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