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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
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
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
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
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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