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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
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 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
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
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
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
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
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 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
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People

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