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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
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
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
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 good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
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
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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Death King Tower
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Owner Poor Thief
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 have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
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
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
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
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
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
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men

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