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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
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
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
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
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

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