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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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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
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
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
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
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
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
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
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
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
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
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
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

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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