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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

Horace

One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
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
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
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
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
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
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
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
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start

Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

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