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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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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
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
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
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
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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Discarde Perceive Return
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
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
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
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
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People

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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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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