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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

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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
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
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
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
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
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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Authorship Care Write
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

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