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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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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
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
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year

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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