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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
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
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
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
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
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
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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
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
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People

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