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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Last Poverty Wing
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
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
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
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
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich

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