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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
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
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
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
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
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Character Consistent Last
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
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

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