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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

Horace

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
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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
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
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
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
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
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
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
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
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
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
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea

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