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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
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
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
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
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
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
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure

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