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Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Horace

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
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.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
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
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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