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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

Horace

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
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
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men

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