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

Horace

Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
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
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
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
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
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

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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