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Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
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
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
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
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 good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
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
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant

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