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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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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
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
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
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
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
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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