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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
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
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
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
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue

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