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Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
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
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
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
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
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write

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