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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.

Horace

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Last Poverty Wing
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
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
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
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
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People

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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