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Horace

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
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
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
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
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
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men

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