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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 your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
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
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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Authorship Care Write
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
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
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

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