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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

Horace

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
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
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
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
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
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
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
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Character Consistent Last
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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