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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

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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
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
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
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
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
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
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

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