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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

Horace

To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
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
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
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
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
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
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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Authorship Care Write
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
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
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
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
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life

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