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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
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
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
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
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
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
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
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
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
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
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

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