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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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
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
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
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
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
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
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year

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