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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

Horace

What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Men Time Year
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Owner Poor Thief
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure

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