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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

Horace

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
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
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
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
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
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

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