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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

Horace

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
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
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
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 please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
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
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
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
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
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
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
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word

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