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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

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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
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
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
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
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
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
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
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
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
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
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness

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