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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

Horace

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
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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Discarde Perceive Return
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
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
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
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
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
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
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
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter

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