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There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
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
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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Death King Tower
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
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
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
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
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember

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